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…
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…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses low back pain and weight loss, and talks about how 10 pounds of weight in…
Joshua Grill, PhD, Director, Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Development Program, UCLA, discusses new therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease. The FDA has currently approved 5 symptomatic therapies…
Joseph Demer, MD, Professor of Opthalmology and Neurology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses double vision, which is not uncommon in the elderly and is traditionally attributed…
Ian A Cook, MD, Director of Unipolar Depression Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the use of measurement – based care for depressed patients, which can…
Andrew Charles, MD, Professor, Director of Headache Research and Treatment Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses migraine as a problem of brain excitability and chemistry rather…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The pure class III anti-arrhythmic drug nifekalant is more effective than lidocaine for terminating refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) or ventricular tachycardia (VT), Japanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating septic shock with steroids produces hyperglycemia, but patients are no better off with intensive insulin therapy than with conventional glucose control, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with middle cerebral artery occlusion, an alteplase dosage of 0.6 mg/kg IV is comparable to a 0.9 mg/kg dosage for achieving…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Operative mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is higher in women, even after adjustment for preoperative risk factors, according to a study…
