IN the evaluation of patients with impairment of renal function it is often important to delineate the anatomic status of the urinary tract. For this purpose retrograde pyelography is customarily ...

ACUTE renal failure in patients with multiple myeloma who have had intravenous urography has had increased emphasis over the last few years. 1–5 A direct cause- and-effect relation between the acute ...

Magnetic Resonance Urography (MRU) has emerged as a powerful imaging modality in pediatric urology, offering comprehensive anatomical and functional assessment of the urinary tract without exposure to ...

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 ...

Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies have called a few into question. By Paula Span An older patient with ...

Call it dental h-AI-genics. A Boston-based tech company, backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s dentist father, has successfully managed the world’s first all-robotic dental procedure. Perceptive, a business ...

Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Four years ago, researchers warned the Centers for Medicare ...

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.

Doctors use blood patch procedures to treat spinal headaches, rare events that may happen after epidurals or other medical procedures involving the spine. In a blood patch your own blood is injected ...

Washington — A congressional investigation into medical abuse allegations that garnered national attention in 2020 found that some immigrant women held by U.S. immigration officials at a Georgia ...

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 ...