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) – Yearly gynecological examinations fail to identify early stage ovarian cancer in women with a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, a Dutch…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After finding that the 5-HT3 receptor in the brain affects susceptibility to opioid dependence, scientists in California have demonstrated the efficacy of ondansetron,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An injection of autologous cultured osteoblasts can accelerate the healing of long-bone fractures, according to a report in the February 12th online issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The prognosis for patients with systemic sclerosis complicated by pulmonary hypertension is “grim,” particularly among African Americans and those with interstitial lung disease,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A technique called targeted muscle innervation is a feasible means of controlling complex prosthetic movements in arm amputees, according to a report in…
By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Morbidly obese patients face higher complication rates than do normal-weight patients after undergoing surgery for colon cancer, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with vestibular schwannomas related to neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), gamma knife radiosurgery can achieve good tumor control in about two-thirds of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As treatments for intermittent claudication, endovascular revascularization and supervised exercise training provide similar improvements in symptoms, function, and quality of life, although these…
DMC pediatric heart specialist uses less invasive technique to repair a child’s Atrial Septal Defect (“hole in the heart”). For more information, please see: Dan Turner, M.D. Sponsored…
DMC Neurosurgeon Sandeep Mittal maps the brain and performs delicate surgery to remove epileptic tissue, and stop a patient’s seizures. ~ Detroit Medical Center Sandeep Mittal, M.D. Sponsored…
