I love PRP. So far. Platelet rich plasma is a red liquid I have injected, to date, into five patient’s heels and four patient’s elbows. These people were probably going to need surgery. The foot patients had insertional Achilles …
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Study: U.S. Calcium Guidelines May Be Too High
Since bones tend to deteriorate with age, it makes sense to take in more calcium as we get older, to help lower the risk of fractures in our hips and limbs. But how much additional calcium is enough? And is there such as thing as too much?
After Liposuction, the Fat Returns — Just in a Different Place
Who needs diet and exercise, when you’ve got liposuction? The flab-busting procedure is now the most popular plastic surgery in the U.S., with surgeons siphoning fat from the love handles and saddlebags of nearly half a million …
The Shuttle Didn’t Fly, But Giffords’ Trip Was Still a Victory
(Updated) Perhaps no one was more disappointed to hear that the shuttle Endeavour‘s launch was scrubbed on Friday than Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Despite the fact that she was hidden in the Kennedy Space Center away from …
Add Inches!! (No, Really, Men Can Make It Longer)
Don’t worry, you didn’t just accidentally click on spam e-mail. Though most advertised penis-enlargement methods are bogus, a new review of 10 existing studies suggests that some nonsurgical techniques really can increase the …
Going Under the Knife? Ask Your Surgeon How Much He Drank Last Night
Some airlines have strict rules about how much pilots can drink the night before they’re supposed to fly, and now some researchers think similar rules should apply to surgeons the night before they operate.
The Lost Art of Doctoring
The baby was just not coming out. Not a very big problem — not in a birthing room in a world-famous obstetric hospital, where nurses, midwives and aides, and doctors, lots of them, were packed in cheek-by-jowl. The major …
Study of Weight-Loss Surgery Complications Revives a Question: Bypass or Banding?
Many patients who receive gastric banding surgery for weight loss experience major complications 12 years later, and as many as half of patients eventually have their bands removed, a new study reports.
Pretty Boys: Plastic Surgery Isn’t Just for Women Anymore
What economic downturn? According to the latest figures, the rate of plastic surgery procedures is not only back on the upswing, but the surgeries are becoming increasingly popular among men.
Making Sense of Medical Statistics: What Patients Should Do
Seung Kang died in a Philadelphia hospital in 2005. He was only 59, and just a week before his death he’d been feeling quite healthy. But a heart catheterization showed blocked vessels to his heart, and a cardiothoracic surgeon …
Doctors Who Feel Your Pain Heal More Patients
Empathy is often seen as a nice — but nonessential — part of medicine. Indeed, for surgeons in the operating room, seeing the patient as a human being may actually be an obstacle to successful performance. At the bedside, …
Medical Research Fraud Risks Millions of Patients’ Lives in Europe
At the center of a medical research scandal that is being compared to the Wakefield hoax that connected vaccines with autism is a disgraced German anesthesiologist, who has been stripped of his professorship, fired from his …
Weight-Loss Winner: Gastric Bypass Works Better for Obese Patients
In head-to-head comparisons of the most commonly used weight-loss surgeries in the U.S., researchers found that gastric bypass worked best for weight loss, reduction of diabetes symptoms and quality of life.
