Men are more likely to die of heart disease compared with women of a similar age – and sex hormones are to blame, according to a new study. The findings of a study by Dr. Maciej Tomaszewski, New…

INTRODUCTION The most common causes of massive bleedings from the hemorrhagic erosive gastritis and similar lesions of duodenum and thin intestine, which well react on the operational treatment,…

BRAY, Ireland, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Surgical Concepts is pleased to announce that surgeons have used its TriPort device to complete a kidney transplant through only a small incision in…

On June 19, 2008 the American Dental Association updated its website indicating that fluoride is a concern to all kidney patients, not just those on dialysis. Along with false assurances of safety,…

One of the nation’s leading joint specialists, Javad Parvizi, M.D., Ph.D., of the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, says you should believe your grandmother, friend or co-…

A Phase III multi-center clinical trial of HBOC-201, a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, manufactured by Biopure Corporation, was relatively safe in patients under 80 years old who have a moderate…

A Yale University senior named Aliza Shvarts ignited the blogosphere with outrage yesterday, April 17, when the Yale student newspaper announced that Shvarts had artificially inseminated herself "as…

Only 45 percent of baseball players were able to return to the game at the same or higher level after shoulder or elbow surgery, according to new research released today during the 2008 American…

Reported: a 42 year old female patient with a serious atopic dermatitis, abruptly appearing since age 8. During several hospitalizations, the patient underwent various therapies without reaching -…

The first case of progressive scalp cicatricial alopecia andfollicular lichen planus (LP) on the trunk and extremities, wasdescribed by Piccardi in 1914, to which he gave the name"cheratosi spinulosa…