New iron deficiency guidelines raise key blood test cutoffs
Could current blood test cutoffs be missing iron deficiency? New guidelines recommend higher ferritin thresholds for key patient…
More than 65,000 Canberrans waiting to see a medical specialist
Canberra grandmother Billie Spencer says her five-year-old granddaughter will have to wait more than three years for a…
Blink-182’s Travis Barker reveals cubital tunnel surgery after hand numbness
“I did a nerve test Monday after my show and turns out I needed a cubital tunnel release…
REUP technique expands access to pediatric heart transplants
A groundbreaking donor heart recovery technique developed at Vanderbilt Health has been successfully adapted for children by pediatric…
As femtosecond lasers find new medical uses, Lithuanian manufacturer bets on scale to meet demand
A recent study, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, found femtosecond laser imaging assesses lung tumor margins six…
Simple urine test can accurately diagnose and track bladder cancer
A simple urine test devised by researchers at Stanford Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System…
All Blacks: Ruben Love to miss rest of the year with ankle injury
That means he will miss the two Bledisloe Cup tests, the first starting on Saturday in Auckland, with…
Robotic hip and knee replacement shows no early surgical benefit
Two major studies by Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford and the University of Bristol, have…
Robotic assisted hip and knee replacements shows no clear benefit over conventional methods
The NHS recently outlined plans to expand robotic surgery sevenfold by 2035, but initial findings from the first…
Fractionated radiation reduces brain cancer recurrence and boosts survival
Mayo Clinic researchers led a multicenter study that found dividing radiation into several treatments, known as fractionated stereotactic…
Five-session SBRT preserves quality of life before pancreatic cancer surgery
Patients preparing for pancreatic cancer surgery maintained better physical function and experienced less fatigue with five treatments of…
Five-treatment radiation provides excellent long-term prostate cancer control
Five-treatment stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provided excellent long-term cancer control with fewer urinary and sexual side effects…