Rafael Barrera, MD, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center in New York, warns that a highly negative energy balance can…
Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS) usually develops after exposure to motion. Commonly, it occurs after a cruise or plane ride. Its symptoms include the perception of swaying —…
Reza Jarrahy, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCLA, discusses challenges in craniofacial surgery, the holy grail of which is the search for a better…
Reza Jarrahy, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCLA, discusses Operation MEND, which is a collaboration UCLA has with the US Army to treat craniofacial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Accelerated radiation therapy is more effective than conventional fractionation for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC), but complications of treatment…
Reza Jarrahy MD, Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, discusses how to evaluate neonates with micrognathia and avoid tracheostomy.…
Reza Jarrahy MD, Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, discusses micrognathia and the associated respiratory distress that occurs in…
Reza Jarrahy, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCLA, discusses cleft lip and palate, which has an incidence of around one in 600 births.Surgical interventions…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new feeding tube that’s inserted while attached to an ultra-thin gastroscope will avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of blind tube placement, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly all patients have complications from chemoradiation for head and neck cancer, a study in the Archives of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery…