Cholangiocarcinoma, which accounts for ~3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, has an incidence of ~5000 new cases per year in the United States, 1 although incidence per capita is several times higher ...

Distal bicep tendon tears are devastating for athletes. I faced surgery, rapid bodyweight loss, and months of struggle. Here’s what I learned through the process. Hamas says it agrees to release all ...

An enigmatic problem in developmental biology is how the positional values along the proximo-distal axis (that is, humerus to digits) of the vertebrate limb are specified. Although this has been a ...

Distal femoral replacement can provide for rapid recovery and good outcomes in older patients with periprosthetic fractures marked by significant comminution and osteopenia. The non-revision ...

This article originally posted on June 22, 2016. It was updated on May 29, 2024. When designing machines, an understanding of anatomical terms such as medial and lateral, proximal and distal, and ...

If the choice is made to anticoagulate patients with symptomatic isolated distal deep vein thrombosis (DVT), outcomes will be improved with 12 versus 6 weeks of treatment, the randomized, ...

Frailty-associated gut dysbiosis significantly increases the risk for gastrointestinal complications following robot-assisted ...

Long-Term Neurocognitive Functioning and Social Attainment in Adult Survivors of Pediatric CNS Tumors: Results From the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study Between September 2012 and December 2014, 1,056 ...

Use of endovascular thrombectomy offered no benefit in patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by occlusions in distal vessels, findings from three new randomized trials showed. The treatment, ...

Premature ejaculation Having sex 3-4 times a week was associated with a significantly greater stone passage rate than tamsulosin or standard medical therapy. Sexual intercourse may be an effective way ...

The greater trochanter is the bony bump on the outer side of the hip. This area may become painful following hip surgery or as a result of inflammation of the fluid-filled sac (bursa) that allows ...