Smruti Mohanty, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, discusses non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, its treatment, risk factors and the fact that 5-10% of…
Tanya Remer Altmann, MD, FAAP, Pediatrician, discusses her new book “Mommy Calls” which answers parents top 101 questions about babies and tells parents when to call the pediatrician,…
Vee Bhide, MD, Pediatrician, Internist, discusses the need for physicians to have a knowledge of complementary and alternative medicines. A recent study by the NIH and US Government…
Anand Germanwala, MD, Neurosurgeon, University of North Carolina, discusses skull base neurosurgery and recent advances in minimally invasive techniques, which often require the assistance of ear, nose and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy is associated with a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with diabetes, according to a report in the June issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that insulin-using diabetics with chronic limb ischemia have worse limb salvage rates and survival than their nondiabetic peers or diabetics…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a small pilot study of frail older women with unexplained weight loss, infusion of the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin led to improvement in…
James N. Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedics, Co-chief, Division of Sports Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses cartilage cell transplantation, one of the most exciting technologies…
Rory J Todhunter, BVSc, PhD, Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine describes the progress of Cornell University researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment of prostate cancer with androgen deprivation therapy is associated with an excess risk of incident diabetes and fractures, but not MI or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research questions prior reports of a lower prevalence of intermittent claudication in women than in men, suggesting instead that it may simply…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In teenagers who are morbidly obese, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) can significantly improve or and even reverse the metabolic syndrome, according to…
