Current treatment for fecal incontinence using a mechanical artificial anal sphincter.
The first steps in developing a functioning artificial anal sphincter was achieved when researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC, grew …

Training dogs to detect cancer
A dog’s sensitivity to smell may be a thousand times greater than ours and with that barrage of information, it’s logical that a dog’s perception of the world around it, is …

This November, 2011, the FDA is expected to increase the cautionary labeling on bisphosphonates, the class of drugs used by over 5 million women in the U.S. to treat osteoporosis, a disease that causes bone …

Need a new liver? Kidney? How about building one? This is not as far-fetched as it seems as I discovered after reading an article about the 3D technology in a recent issue of New Scientist.
3D …

A fistula is an opening between two parts of the body that don’t normally exist. These abnormal openings develop for any number of reasons: infection, trauma, or medical conditions that predispose the individual to developing …

Hundreds of thousands of men and women have benefitted from stent placements in their coronary arteries when doctors have found blockages in their hearts, so the same principle of inserting stents in blocked arteries in …

“Disabled” implies limitations but not so for these men and women for whom confinement to a wheelchair does not stop them from participating in activities that “able-bodied” others would not venture to do. As this …

I’ve been thinking about the emotional toll on cancer survivors who experience a recurrence of their disease since several of my patients are currently undergoing further testing and evaluation for possible breast cancer recurrence. For …

It bears repeating that chocolate, stress and dirt are not causes of acne. This article will look at the physiological chain of events that lead to acne and how specific treatments disrupt the different stages …

Sad to say that this is still a problem among health care professionals – lack of hand washing. Time and again, studies show that this simple act significantly reduces infection rates. The NY Times recently …