Scientists are exploring existing drugs and new medications to find treatments that can stop COVID-19 and possibly prevent the next pandemic. If these medications are given early enough, they offer the potential of keeping the virus from replicating and never becoming a global disease.
Prostate cancer treatments have been available for many years but there are often difficult side effects. Now doctors are having success with a relatively new procedure that uses ultrasound rather than surgery or radiation.
Federal authorities say a heart inflammatory condition can be a rare side effect of the MRNA vaccines, especially in adolescent boys and young men. But they say most often the cases are mild and the patients recover within a few days. Authorities are studying this side effect to determine if they should change the vaccine [...]
Millions suffer every day with asthma symptoms and treatments especially for the most severe forms of the disease can often fall short. But an asthma expert talks about a new category of asthma treatments that are changing the game and ushering in a new golden age in treating this debilitating disease.
Conditions that cause a low sperm count can lead to infertility in men. But a surgical procedure that finds sperm hidden in tissue may help infertile men become fathers.
New Alzheimer’s drug reduces the brain plaques that cause memory and cognitive issues— but is that a cure? An Alzheimer’s researcher explains.
A young ballerina battling worsening scoliosis receives an innovative new surgery that allows her to get back to performing, dancing, and aerial acrobatics.
DOCTOR JORGE CASTELLANOS, INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGIST, NEWPORT HEART MEDICAL GROUP Heart disease continues to be the number one killer of both men and women. In this episode our expert talks about the risks for a heart attack and a stroke and what can be done to prevent heart disease, lower blood pressure and keep you and [...]
DOCTOR MEREDITH DUKE, SURGEON, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER In this episode we discuss the problems of childhood and adult obesity and what can be done to correct it. Our expert also discusses the different types of gastric surgery to overcome obesity and we highlight a teacher who is helping her students learn healthy eating habits [...]
