This webinar introduces key updates in acute ischemic stroke management, focusing on how modern decision‑making integrates time‑sensitive evaluation, advanced imaging, and AI‑supported tools. It also reviews the expanded…
Daniel R. Schimmel, MD, explains how balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) uses balloons and specialized catheters to open narrowed vessels in the lungs to improve circulation and reduce symptoms…
Janna Andrews, MD, discusses the clinical threshold for when a physician should consider preforming a biopsy after preforming a PSA exam to screen for prostate cancer. She also…
How has the nature of chemotherapy and prostate cancer evolved? Janna Andrews, MD, explains that historically, there were not many options for patients who became resistant to androgen deprivation therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Serrated lesions of the colorectum, once thought benign, may give rise to one-third of all colorectal cancers, but are more difficult to detect…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ablation of atrial fibrillation by combining the transvenous catheter approach with the thoracoscopic epicardial approach in a single procedure has a high success…
How can physicians evaluate what rising PSA levels mean when screening for prostate cancer? Janna Andrews, MD, explains how PSA levels rise naturally with growing age, and how physicians can use…
The recent PLCO study and its results have sparked controversy in some circles. The trial concludes that routine PSA exams and digital rectal exams, standard screening exams for prostate cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women undergoing labor induction, the rate of vaginal delivery within 24 hours is higher when a double-balloon transcervical catheter rather than a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block for controlling pain,…
Most weight loss programs are rather intensive during the initial weeks of treatment. They can also be costly and require a huge time commitment. An alternative treatment is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a Korean study of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer who had never smoked and were previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy, progression-free…
