Breast implants now come with a "black box" warning. What does that mean for the 300,000 patients who choose to have breast reconstruction after a mastectomy or breast augmentation for cosmetic reasons each year?
Nov 29, 2021
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The more often a professional basketball player drives the ball toward the basket to score, the higher the risk of the dreaded knee injury known as an anterior cruciate ligament tear, according to a Stanford Medicine study.
Nov 9, 2021
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Jessica Lingor remembers the crisp December day nearly six years ago when doctors diagnosed her yet-to-be-born daughter, Kaylie, with spina bifida—a type of birth defect in which a baby's spinal cord fails to develop or ...
Oct 1, 2021
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Results from a study published in Psycho-Oncology suggest that women with breast cancer recover from negative impacts of mastectomy on body image within four years of surgery, whether they have immediate, delayed, or no breast ...
Sep 9, 2021
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When patients undergo an MRI, they are told to lie still because even the slightest movement compromises the quality of the images and can create blurred spots and speckles known as artifacts. Moreover, a long acquisition ...
Sep 7, 2021
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Your doctor walks into the exam room wearing a white coat. Or perhaps your physician has on a fleece or softshell jacket.
Aug 3, 2021
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Orthopedic surgeons know that knee surgeries that require revisions have inferior outcomes compared with primary surgeries but until now, the reason for this was unknown. Today a team of orthopedic physicians reports that ...
Jul 10, 2021
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In the year ending March 2019, 259 people were killed in the UK using sharp instruments, including knives and broken bottles.
Jul 2, 2021
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For most patients, the reasons for having a facelift are simple: to "turn back the clock" for a younger and more attractive appearance. Even during the pandemic year 2020, more than 234,000 patients underwent facelift surgery, ...
Jun 30, 2021
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The role of functional imaging is growing in clinical practice, where it is used to investigate the functional and physiological changes in the target. Unlike anatomical imaging, functional imaging is used to determine the ...
Jun 21, 2021
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