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August 12, 2022Each year, more than 500,000 people visit an emergency room because of a kidney stone. People with kidney stones can often experience flank or back pain. The pain from kidney stones ca...
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August 21, 2018Most of the time, people don’t notice their salivary glands. They are located in the mouth and throat, and they produce saliva. We start to notice these glands if a stone or tumor develops and blocks ...
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July 31, 2018Hernias are common, and you likely know someone who has had one at some point in their life. So, perhaps it’s no surprise that the most common esophageal condition I treat is paraesophageal hernia, wh...
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July 24, 2018By The Joint Replacement Specialists
The number of first-time total knee replacements, also known as arthroplasties, is expected to grow by 673 percent, reaching 3.48 million procedures by 2030, according to a study published by the Jour...
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July 03, 2018A September 2017 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the number of Americans who have died from chronic respiratory diseases, particularly chronic obstructive p...
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June 26, 2018In 2006, the latest technology available for PET-CT scans was the time-of-flight scanner. At the time, this scanner compared to older PET models was like comparing old, heavy TVs of the 1980s to the f...
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June 06, 2018The American Cancer Society has released new colonoscopy recommendations: Adults at average risk should start getting colonoscopies at 45 instead of 50. The update is due to an alarming trend that sho...
