Tag: Surgery

While a sudden coughing fit is a protective reflex to clear the airway, chronic cough can be caused by multiple ...

January 3, 2019 - A growing body of evidence supports the effectiveness of botulinum toxin injections in reducing the frequency ...

January 3, 2019 - An implantable neuroprosthetic device may one day provide a new approach to restoring more natural facial ...

An analysis of nationwide data shows patients with symptoms are most likely to return to the hospital within a week ...

Tailoring treatment to men, women may improve survival For decades, scientists have recognized that more males get cancer and die ...

Credit: WVU University Relations MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Cardiovascular disease pervades Appalachia, yet many Appalachians live far from any heart and vascular specialist. ...

1. Catheter ablation superior to standard drug therapy for heart failure Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-0992 URLs go live when the embargo lifts ...

December 21, 2018 - At least for brief periods, overlapping surgery is safe for patients undergoing outpatient or "same-day" orthopaedic ...

Almost 60 percent of patients were prescribed antibiotics in a way that did not follow AUA guidelines A new study ...

The American Heart Association funds study at Children's National to analyze how a forgotten compound may improve metabolic function among ...

Credit: Professor Robert McLaughlin, University of Adelaide. A biopsy needle that can help surgeons identify and avoid blood vessels in ...

A small number of women require re-operation after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for breast cancer, if the surgical margins are not ...

In an American Journal of Transplantation study, lung cancer risk was increased after lung transplantation, especially in the native (non-transplanted) ...

New study offers important and novel way to look at 'old problem' of cognitive dysfunctionCredit: Elsevier Chicago, December 18, 2018 ...

Columbia student Peter Dupont Grantcharov is lead author of the data-driven study A new study reveals that during stressful moments ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - DEC. 17, 2018 - Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have recently developed ...

High-risk initiative aims to develop 'Time-Tolerant Biostasis Therapeutics' that slow down critical processes in the human body to gain time ...

Court filing prompted change in allocation policy in 2017 to make the system fairer, but system still may discriminate Results ...

Otherwise healthy men with advanced prostate cancer may benefit greatly from surgery, but many with this diagnosis have no need ...

New study shows how newly created cardiac muscle cells can be made to pump togetherCredit: John Emerson A team of ...