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) – Adolescents with chronic pancreatitis can have long-term relief from pain after therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), researchers from China say. The goal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Excisional biopsies are best for diagnosing cutaneous melanoma, because partial biopsies have higher risks of misdiagnosis, adverse events, and microstaging inaccuracy, Australian researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With small breast cancers, doing complete axillary dissections only for positive sentinel lymph node biopsies (SNLB) yields the same 10-year survival – roughly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with Barrett’s high-grade dysplasia or early esophageal adenocarcinoma, endoscopic resection improves staging and “dramatically” reduces esophagectomy rates, Australian physicians report. Esophagectomy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In young women with stage IA1 cervical cancer, a fertility-preserving conization does not reduce survival compared to hysterectomy, researchers report in the March…
Micheal Swiernik, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, UCLA, discusses the considerations before purchasing an EMR that suits your workplace, and the costs associated with implementing this into your practice…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses hybrid approaches to cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, such as operation rooms where interventional…
Arya Nick Shamie, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the use of stem cells in spinal surgery to grow…
Reza Jarrahy MD, Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, discusses how to evaluate neonates with micrognathia and avoid tracheostomy.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new battery-operated compression device is at least as effective as low-molecular weight heparin in preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) after hip arthroplasty, but…
