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) – Before the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system was introduced in February 2002, black patients were less likely to receive a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A brief discussion among members of the operating room team just before surgery begins to outline the procedure and review important components can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
Carl Kirschner, PhD, Organizational/Personal Effectiveness Consultant and Former College/University Dean of Students at SUNY and CUNY, discusses how emotional intelligence can help physicians better treat patients, and describes…
Dr. Francis Cordova, Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at Temple University School of Medicine, gives some recommendations for referring patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a case-control study suggest that silicone breast prostheses may increase the risk of developing anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma (ALCL) of…
Dr. Gerard J. Criner, Director of the Temple University Lung Center, talks about the use of lung volume reduction surgery in treating patients with severe emphysema. References and…
Dr. Armand Daccache, Associate Director of the Residency Program and Assistant Professor of the Retina / Vitreous Section at the Yale Eye Center, discusses the use of focal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert about complications related to transvaginal placement of surgical mesh devices used to repair…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Surgery appears to be safe option in treatment of certain elderly patients with renal tumors, German researchers report in the September issue of…
