Doctors find ‘foreign bodies’ inside a man’s chest, penis
This story might get under your skin. A man’s hospital visit took a bizarre turn when testing revealed…
New white paper calls for integrating oral and general healthcare
Oral health can no longer be treated separately from general health, according to a new white paper from…
Hadassah surgeon goes halfway around the world to save a life
Prof. Ron Eliashar of Hadassah Medical Center participated in Ecuador in a complex operation to remove a tumor…
MD Anderson trial challenges local consolidative therapy paradigm in NSCLC
Adding local consolidative therapy (LCT) after induction treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab did not improve overall survival or…
New integrated framework advances precision surgery for liver cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the sixth most common malignancy and the third leading cause of cancer-related death globally. Despite…
New prostate cancer screening advances improve early detection
Did you know that about 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime?…
Boy, 6, died from hidden scurvy after multivitamin lacked vitamin C
A six-year-old boy died from cardiac arrest linked to the “sailor’s disease” scurvy, after a hidden vitamin C…
Recipients of gene-edited pig kidneys successfully receive human organs
When doctors think about sticking an organ from another animal into a person, one of their many questions…
IBD patients with family cancer history more likely to develop colorectal cancer
People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have several close relatives with colorectal cancer are significantly more likely…
Early-onset bowel cancer shows distinct biological and clinical features
One of Australia’s largest real world studies of younger adults with advanced bowel cancer has identified important differences…
Breast cancer survivors could avoid lifelong heart medication, research suggests
Many breast cancer survivors whose treatment caused them to develop problems with their heart function can safely stop their medication after their heart recovers and most won’t need to continue treatment long-term, according to…
Medical History: Israeli surgeons replace teenager’s pelvis in 19-hour operation
In a historic medical achievement for Israel, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons from Clalit-Schneider Children’s Medical Center and…