An annual check-up, followed by a routine medical procedure, ended with a voice on the other end of the telephone saying the three words every patient secretly prays they never have to hear, y…
Surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will perform the nation's first bilateral arm transplant on a Texas woman.
When her son, Colton, developed asthma-like symptoms and coughing at just a few months old, Jessica Ainslie, from Peoria, Ariz., took him to the doctor. Breathing treatments seemed to do the trick, but Colton was soon sick again — he developed thru…
Hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver and a major, if unrecognized, health crisis in the United States. The disease has multiple forms, identified by their alphabetized viruses. The most problematic form is hepatitis C or HCV.
This week I’m at ICAAC (the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy), a massive infectious-disease and drugs meeting that is sponsored every year by the American Society for Microbiology.
NEW YORK , Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which for 67 years has championed the greatest advances in medical research, announced today the winners of the 2012 Lasker …
Australian and New Zealand specialists are calling for urgent action to treat more people with hepatitis B and C to slash soaring liver cancer rates.
LORAIN — It’s been a tough and emotional few weeks for Brad Anderson, who underwent a liver transplant Aug. 13 at the Cleveland Clinic, but he finally went home from hospital earlier this week after complicated surgeries.
Hunter Billbe contracted an infection while recovering and died Saturday, September 1 in Cincinnati.
The Black Death hasn't disappeared completely. But these days, a quick-thinking doctor can beat it