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) – Serial measurement of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) provides the most valuable prognostic information of six routinely collected admission laboratory tests in patients admitted…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who undergo bariatric surgery should not expect it to cure their obstructive sleep apnea, according to results of a meta-analysis published in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or 3 (CIN2/3) by loop electrosurgical excision (LEEP) may lead to a reduction in acquisition of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transvaginal laparoscopic ovarian drilling is effective in enhancing pregnancy rates in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) improves the staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and also reduces the numbers of total…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of patients whose type 2 diabetes resolves after gastric bypass will remain free from the disease up to 16 years…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even after highly gonadotoxic cancer treatment, long-term ovarian function and fertility can be restored by repeated heterotopic ovarian tissue autotransplantation, researchers in Korea…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Laparoscopic gastric bypass is just as safe and effective in patients over 65 years of age as it is in younger patients, according…
There hasn’t been an official verdict on the value of specialty hospitals, but proponents of these facilities recently attained more evidence to support their case. A recent report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urine testing for leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein and other biomarkers may improve the ability of doctors to diagnose acute appendicitis, according to a report in…
