Robotic surgery represents the latest advancement in minimally invasive surgery, utilizing small incisions for procedures that once required large abdominal or thoracic openings. This technique offers the same…
In this episode of “Newsworthy Stories,” Jacqueline Jimenez speaks with Bohdan Pomahac, MD, a leading plastic surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Robert Chelsea, the first African-American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After ruling out an upper gastrointestinal (GI) source of bleeding, patients with serious hematochezia should undergo colonoscopy within the next few days. But…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors should make sure immunizations are up to date before cochlear implant surgery in children, new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perturbed sleep and high blood pressure aren’t the only consequences of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). New data suggest that OSA is common in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Polypropylene mesh placement during vaginal reconstructive surgery for pelvic organ prolapse appears to do more harm than good, according to a small randomized…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Decreases in hemoglobin after transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are minor in most patients, researchers from Quebec Heart-Lung Institute report in the July…
Charles E. Argoff, MD, Professor of Neurology and Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center at the Albany Medical Center, reviews certain decision effects using the topical medication versus…
Charles E. Argoff, MD, Professor of Neurology and Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center at the Albany Medical Center, speaks of the newly established guidelines for pharmacologic management…
Charles E. Argoff, MD, Professor of Neurology and Director of The Comprehensive Pain Center at the Albany Medical Center, speaks on different treatment options when dealing with pain.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cardiologists should perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as soon as possible if initial treatment for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is thrombolysis, researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) The earlier a patient with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receives clopidogrel before primary coronary intervention (PCI), the better, according to a study in…
