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) – Propofol may be preferable to ketamine for procedural sedation in the emergency department, researchers conclude in a study published online June 2 in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer, the best timing and duration of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is unclear. Now, a systematic review suggests…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-power laser vaporization is a safe and effective alternative to transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for benign prostatic hyperplasia, results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The extent to which doxycycline slows the progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is not the same in neutrally aligned (non-varus) and malaligned (varus,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), monopolar transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is being increasingly challenged as the gold standard. Two randomized controlled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In selected patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma, endoscopic management offers a nephron-sparing alternative to nephroureterectomy, researchers report in the June issue of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is superior to the standard guaiac-based FOBT for detecting advanced colorectal neoplasms and cancer, say…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preprocedural use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs) in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after acute myocardial infarction may improve clinical outcomes, according to…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, for which medical therapy is totally inadequate and…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, UCLA, discusses the upside and downside of technology to our brain and overall health. Reading: Straker L, Pollock C, Maslen…
