10/03/2017
12 years – that’s how long benefits persist from the Roux-en-Y gastric-bypass weight-loss surgery, according to results of a multi-site U.S. study published recently in the New England Journal of...
12/29/2017
A recent national news story called attention to an “epidemic” of unnecessary cancer screenings among senior citizens in the United States. Is it ethical medicine, for example, to advise an 89-year-...
02/06/2018
If you were diagnosed with glioblastoma — a brain cancer that, with conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatment, is usually fatal within 12 to 15 months — would you try a novel therapy that...
07/17/2018
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Come September, when Debbie Davis returns to work as an aide at Morgan Middle School, she’ll have an incomparable “what I did...
08/01/2018
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative condition with no known cause or cure and is newly diagnosed in 60,000 Americans every year.
It’s a progressive disease, which in some can lead to loss of...
08/06/2018
Every time a commercial pilot encounters a complication, the airline does a root-cause analysis and shares the findings immediately. The investigation focuses not on blame, but on the problem and the...
08/23/2018
“Congenital heart disease” sounds like one condition, but the term applies to upward of 20 structural abnormalities , such as malformed chambers and incomplete vessel junctions. For decades, the...
09/24/2018
“4 get cancer from donated organ,” blared the headline above a news story last week. It described the case of a woman in Europe who died in 2007. Her undetected breast cancer was transmitted via...
10/17/2018
A study published this week reflects that more patients than ever who need aortic-valve heart repair are doing so via a catheter instead of open surgery.
To see one of these catheter procedures is to...
01/17/2019
In the past decade, U.S. adults’ health has generally worsened due to poor nutrition and inactivity. Statin therapy has become the cardiologist’s go-to strategy to reduce patients’ “bad” cholesterol...