It has been suggested that high blood pressure might increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). Some studies have indicated that antihypertensive drugs might reduce this risk.

While some worry that leaving the nipple intact can put women at greater risk of relapse, new research found that not to be the case at all For women who must undergo mastectomy, a procedure sparing ...

Although radical cystectomy is an effective treatment for bladder cancer, it can have negative effects on urinary and sexual function. Lane et al. have performed nerve-sparing and ...

Dr. Eva Singletary answers the question: 'What is a skin-sparing mastectomy?' — -- Question: What is a skin-sparing mastectomy and does this need to be done for breast reconstruction? Answer: A ...

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center finds that pleurectomy/decortication, a lung-sparing surgery, can be performed safely with low ...

DUBLIN — Adrenal-sparing surgery enables half of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2) and bilateral pheochromocytoma to gain 10 years without adrenal insufficiency yet still have a ...

Bilateral nerve-sparing prostatectomy resulted in better sexual and urinary function outcomes than unilateral or nonnerve sparing surgery, but the difference reached significance only in men who ...

Serum MicroRNA Signatures Identified in a Genome-Wide Serum MicroRNA Expression Profiling Predict Survival of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer A total of 211 patients (stage IA, n = 126; stage IC, n = 85) ...

Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to a new study. Synthetic proteins engineered to ...