John J. Huang, MD, Assistant Professor at the Yale Eye Center, discusses genetic testing to predict development of macular degeneration. References and Resources Stone EM. Genetic testing for…
John J. Huang, MD, Assistant Professor at the Yale Eye Center, talks about diagnosis and treatment of uveitis. References and Resources Ephgrave K. Extra-intestinal manifestations of Crohn’s disease.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic heart failure, higher systolic blood pressures paradoxically predict better survival, according to researchers in the UK. Writing in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review of published studies suggests that chorionic villus sampling (CVS) for prenatal diagnosis may be associated with an increased risk of infantile…
Google Product Manager, Roni Zeiger, MD, discusses his passions and the path that led him to his current role. For more information on this physician, visit: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/is-there-doctor-in-family.html Sponsored…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) The incidence of invasive fungal infections in very low birthweight neonates is significantly reduced in those given prophylactic bovine lactoferrin, an Italian group reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Based on postoperative levels of parathyroid hormone and serum calcium, more than half of patients undergoing thyroidectomy do not need routine calcium and/or vitamin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Every month of treatment for hypertension leads to almost one extra day of life free from cardiovascular death, researchers report in the Journal of…
After evaluating changes in the Senate health system reform bill contained in a manager?s amendment, the American Medical Association announced its support of the bill while also saying…
Kathleen Berchelmann, MD, CPHIMS, Pediatric Hospitalist, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, MO, discusses a new web-based program she developed which electronically manages the pediatric sign-out…
Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director, Plastic Surgery Research, Head, Microsurgery Training, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the techinical challenges of face transplants versus hand transplants, citing the difficulty of the…
Roni Zeiger, lead product manager at Google Health, speaks to The Doctors Channel at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco 2009 about personal health records and how…
