Drug-eluting stents — small metal tubes used to prop open clogged arteries — have been garnering headlines. In an interview in the May issue of Mayo Clinic Women?s HealthSource, Abhiram Prasad, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, puts recent developments in perspective.
Drinking farm milk can protect children against asthma and hayfever, according to a study of nearly 15,000 children published in the May issue of Clinical and Experimental Allergy.
A new HPV vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer is nearly 100 percent effective against the two types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.
The customary ethical norms of the doctor-patient relationship, such as patient autonomy and confidentiality, are often challenged when the doctor is a team physician and the patient is an athlete.
Nearly a quarter of a million Americans each year may be hospitalized with bleeding complications caused by needlessly taking a daily dose of an adult-sized aspirin rather than a baby aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke.
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine explored why blacks are less likely than other races to become living kidney donors, and the reasons are obesity and failure to complete the donor evaluation.
Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Hepatitis B Foundation announced the launch of the fourth annual “AIM for the B: Awareness, Involvement and Mobilization for Chronic Hepatitis B” program, a public education initiative taking place during National Hepatitis B Awareness Week (May 7-11).
Obstetrics is a high risk specialty with high negligence claims payments in the NHS. The introduction of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and the breakdown of the traditional ?firm? structure has meant that contact time between consultants and their trainees is falling, and young doctors run the risk of losing valuable experience gained from being mentored by senior staff.
New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology shows a link between the development of placenta praevia and placental abruption during the subsequent pregnancies of women who previously had a caesarean section.
Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a device to improve cell therapy for diabetes patients by anchoring transplanted insulin-producing cells inside a major blood vessel.