A social media miracle brought a seriously-ill teen from Angola to New York for two life-altering surgeries. Abel David Bachalhau Santos, 14, was halfway across the world when an Instagram account run ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 77 and have been suffering from an enlarged prostate for 20 years, waking up six times each night to use the toilet. Because my prostate is “extremely large,” according to my ...

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A woman in Delaware has become the first patient to undergo minimally invasive, endovascular surgery with a polymer-based coil. The coil, manufactured by ...

Preoperative transcatheter arterial embolization was an effective way to reduce blood loss during surgery for metastases of the extremities from hepatocellular carcinoma, with no reports of major ...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), known as an enlarged prostate, affects a major portion of the male population, particularly those over the age of 50 and more than 80 percent of the population of ...

Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) is a minimally invasive procedure that is safer and more effective than surgery. UFE has fewer complications and a lesser chance of recurrence. Uterine fibroid ...

A procedure performed under mild sedation in less than two hours by an interventional radiologist relieves chronic knee pain caused by osteoarthritis, an NYU Langone Health study shows. As they ...

Research shows that nonsurgical embolization is 98 percent effective, offers a lower recurrence rate and much quicker recovery than surgery for the treatment of varicoceles (varicose veins in the ...

Spinal vascular malformations, also known as spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), are the result of an abnormal connection between arteries and veins that occurs within the spinal canal or ...