A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...
THE appreciation of renal-artery lesions as a cause of systemic hypertension began with the work of Goldblatt et al. 1 in 1934. This experimental finding was immediately implicated in human ...
A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...
The authors probed Medicare Part B data to explore outpatient clinical procedures performed by physician associates and nurse practitioners and report the trends from 2014 through 2021. Objective: We ...
The Tenex Procedure is a nonsurgical procedure developed and trademarked by Tenex Health. It helps patients with chronic tendon pain - tendinosis or tendinitis. By using ultrasonic frequencies — or ...
A Central Texas woman is taking back her life by controlling a health issue that affects millions of Americans. According to the American Heart Association, about 30 million Americans have resistant ...
Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China Background: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) potentially may ...
Electrophysiology (EP) procedures are crucial in diagnosing and treating various heart rhythm disorders. They involve a doctor placing thin catheters into the heart to assess its electrical activity.
A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure is a treatment method used to lower portal hypertension, or excessive pressure in your portal vein. This vein is responsible for ...
Despite advances in cancer treatment, pancreatic cancer still has a poor prognosis and has one of the lowest survival rates of any cancer. The Whipple procedure, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, ...
This feature mentions pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or both. Please read at your own discretion. Dilation and curettage, or D&C, is a procedure that doctors use to remove tissues from the uterus. It has ...