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…
A consultant surgical gastroenterologist at Manipal Hospital, Sarjapur Road, provides an overview of the surgical gastroenterology department. He discusses advanced laparoscopic procedures for liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and GI…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic heart failure have a higher mortality risk or are more likely to undergo a heart transplant if they have low…
Robert Goldberg, MD, Frank Dabby Professor, Opthalmology Chief, Orbital and Opthalmic Plastic Surgery, UCLA, discusses treatment for Graves Eye Disease, which mainly focuses on medical therapy. IV steroids…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of developing obesity-related cancer such as breast cancer or prostate cancer is apparently not curtailed in patients who undergo bariatric surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic kidney disease not requiring hemodialysis present a dilemma when it comes to treating concomitant multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD): coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Since the advantage of adding chemotherapy to surgical resection of early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer was demonstrated a few years ago, the strategy has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with symptomatic uterine fibroids wishing to maintain fertility, laparoscopic myomectomy with transient occlusion of the uterine artery during the procedure may…
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) – Azithromycin is not only an effective treatment for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) that occurs in many lung transplant patients, it can also prevent…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – What appears to be a blue nevus might be a cutaneous melanoma metastasis. High resolution ultrasonography can aid dermatologists in making the differential…
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…
