Using a patient's age to raise the threshold for an abnormal result of a blood test used to assess patients with a suspected pulmonary embolism (blood clot in lungs) appeared to be safe and led to fewer healthy patients with ...
Mar 18, 2014
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Interventional radiologists have devised a new way to access a woman's fibroids—by flipping her wrist and treating via an arm not groin artery—to nonsurgically shrink noncancerous growths in the muscular wall of the uterus. ...
Mar 5, 2014
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In collaboration with an international team, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an antibody, 3F7, which blocks a protein that is active in the coagulation system factor XII. Inhibition of factor ...
Feb 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—A new nonsurgical treatment for enlarged prostate might help ease symptoms such as frequent urination at night, Brazilian researchers report.
Jan 22, 2014
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(HealthDay)—The risk of death from hip- or knee-replacement surgery has dropped substantially in recent years, a large new study finds.
Jan 9, 2014
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A new study reports that individuals who underwent embolization of the left gastric artery for gastrointestinal bleeding experienced a 7.9 percent decrease in body weight three months after the procedure. Results of the study, ...
Nov 25, 2013
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According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 800,000 Americans die each year from heart disease and stroke. Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability and death in the US. ...
Nov 19, 2013
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On April 11, 2013, Kimberly Dull became the first woman in Illinois—and one of the first in the United States—to take part in a clinical trial of an investigational, non-invasive procedure for uterine fibroids. The procedure, ...
Nov 12, 2013
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(HealthDay)—The top five pulmonology-related issues that physicians and patients should question have been released by the American College of Chest Physicians and American Thoracic Society (ATS) as part of the Choosing ...
Oct 29, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Treatment for epistaxis is highly variable, with similar outcomes seen for embolization and arterial ligation, but increased costs with embolization, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head ...
Oct 19, 2013
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