NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptures, expedient endovascular repair in selected patients can save lives, an international group reports. They point out in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The notable accumulation of visceral fat that occurs in some patients with HIV who are on antiretroviral drugs can be reduced substantially by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and elevate natriuretic peptide levels can benefit from treatment with various suppressors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Radiographic progression of rheumatoid arthritis is reduced to comparable degrees by DMARDs (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs), glucocorticoids, biologics and combination treatments, a Danish…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Few pediatric patients with complex febrile seizures have acute bacterial meningitis if other signs and symptoms are absent, clinicians at Children’s Hospital Boston,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A modified procedure intended to improve on Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease has been shown in an Australian study to actually have…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer harboring susceptibility mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) did better with gefitinib given as first-line therapy…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of the Department of General Surgery and the Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hospital Ein-Karem, Jerusalem describes the hospital’s work outside of…
Listen in as Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of the Department of General Surgery and the Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah Hospital University in Ein-Karem, recounts a normal…
Avraham I. Rivkind, M.D., Head of General Surgery and Shock Trauma Unit at Hadassah University Hostpital Ein-Karem, gives tips on how to react during a terrorist attack. For…