February 12, 2016
EGD - Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
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With the rise of new tests, some doctors face an uncertain future.
A prescription for confusion: trying to determine whether a benefit outweighs possible risks from drug treatment.
Some women so strongly prefer a female colonoscopist that they are willing to delay the procedure for a month or pay up to $200 extra to have a woman perform it.
The acronym CUP ("cancer of unknown primary") sounds innocent enough. But the implications of it are anything but innocuous.
An estimated 10 to 20 percent of all school-age children suffer severe recurrent abdominal pain, and many go months before being treated.
Abdominal pain in an adolescent girl can have a simple common explanation, but it cannot be taken for granted as a simple question.
At one time, any surgery under general anesthesia practically mandated a stay in the hospital, often to recover not from the surgery but from the effects of the anesthesia used during the operation. Patients were woozy for hours, unable to get out of bed, nauseated and vomiting, and even if they...
Pneumonia In 1855, John Hughes Bennett made pioneering use of statistics to show that the common practice of bloodletting with leeches increased the mortality of pneumonia victims.
Occult gastrointestinal bleeding poses one of the toughest challenges in medicine. The problem is that it's incredibly difficult to find the source of the bleeding. Endoscopes -- those flexible fiber-optic cables that are inserted down patients' throats, into their stomachs and then into their...
In the year since Medicare began paying for wider access to colonoscopy to look for colon cancer, the number of people having the test has greatly increased, and doctors say they are struggling to keep up with demand. Dr. Michael Pignone, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of...
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