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Surgery
Surgery: The branch of medicine that employs operations in the treatment of disease or injury. Surgery can involve cutting, abrading, suturing, or otherwise physically changing body tissues and organs. It uses uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
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JUL 27, 2017Videos
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During its annual member meeting in June the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international body th ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUN 29, 2017Neuroscience
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The key in treating any kind of cancer is not only to shut a tumor down via chemo, radiation or surgery, but also to kee ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 27, 2017
Videos
With the recent news that Senator John McCain is suffering from a brain tumor, there's been a of talk about brain cancer
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 26, 2017
Cardiology
The hormone responsible for preventing us from constant eating and keeping us at a healthy weight apparently also plays
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 24, 2017
Videos
One of the advanced forms of surgery that a patient may undergo is an organ transplant. These are necessary when organ f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 21, 2017
Videos
Prostate cancer is often very treatable when it's caught early, but in cases where it has spread (metastasis) outcomes a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Here’s something that ophthalmologists don’t usually get to do: fish out 27 contact lenses out of a patient&
...
JUL 19, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Cancer Treatment: IMRT (Radiation Therapy) Radiation therapy is one of the crucial treatment options for various types o
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 13, 2017
Cardiology
How can you calculate your risk of dying or being hospitalized for cardiovascular complications in the year follo
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 13, 2017
Videos
Detecting any cancer as early as possible is always a plus in determining treatment. Outcomes are usually better when tr
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 11, 2017
Health & Medicine
Scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have designed two new drug candidates to targe
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
JUL 10, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a rare scientific double-whammy, two groups of scientists independently found that targeted, personalized vaccines st
...
JUL 06, 2017
Neuroscience
Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects about 1 million people in the United States. It’s a progressive disease, of
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 03, 2017
Cardiology
Two small proteins, elastin and collagen, make up a dynamic duo that promote a sturdy foundation of tensile strength and
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 02, 2017
Videos
One kind of surgical procedure that has never been performed before is a human head transplant, and there's a pretty goo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 29, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
During its annual member meeting in June the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international body th
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 29, 2017
Neuroscience
When you think about the brain, how much it does, how resilient it is, while at the same time how easily it can be damag
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 23, 2017
Health & Medicine
Do breast implants skew the results from an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading leading to a false diagnosis of a heart atta
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
For people who are lucky enough to survive an Ebola infection, the virus doesn't go away without leaving some traces
...
JUN 23, 2017
Cancer
A blood test that’s been around for decades might have the potential to improve treatment for thousands of colon c
...
JUN 23, 2017
Videos
In terms of treating cancer, there are normally three options for most patients. Chemotherapy, with highly toxic drugs t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 14, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Genetic testing now exists for a number of cancers in the reproductive organs, such as ovarian and breast cancer. Howeve
...
JUN 08, 2017
Health & Medicine
A rip in the lining of the aorta requires immediate attention; 40 percent of people with this condition die immediately,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 01, 2017
Health & Medicine
The standard procedure for treating an irregular heartbeat is done so with a visual technique that inflicts high doses o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 01, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have come up with a new gastric balloon for patients struggling to lose serious weight. But while similar dev
...
MAY 26, 2017
Videos
The key in treating any kind of cancer is not only to shut a tumor down via chemo, radiation or surgery, but also to kee
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim