A vigorous, healthy-appearing newborn boy is brought to the local emergency room for evaluation after a spontaneous home ...

Chemotherapy usually works well at reducing the size of the spleen. But rarely, some people need an operation to remove their spleen (splenectomy). The spleen's normal job is to filter the blood and ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer affecting a type of white blood cell in the blood and bone marrow. It often progresses slowly and is diagnosed most often during routine blood ...

Turbinates are structures inside the nose. Swelling due to irritation, allergies, or infection can cause enlarged turbinates. A person can treat this by addressing the underlying reasons, certain ...

If you know every public bathroom in town…If leaping out of bed to pee is routine…If you’d like a kinder, gentler treatment option for an enlarged prostate…keep reading. Meet Bob, age 75. He wanted to ...

Your urologist will use several tests to determine how severe your BPH is and whether it affects your bladder health. They may recommend watchful waiting if your BPH is mild. Watchful waiting means ...

Men with a common prostate condition may benefit from a minimally invasive treatment at Tidelands Health. Aquablation is a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, a common condition that ...

With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to the spleen where ...

Ojjaara helps patients with myelofibrosis by reducing spleen size, easing symptoms, and improving anemia to boost independence from blood transfusions. Ojjaara (momelotinib) is the first treatment of ...

Sarasota Memorial Hospital is one of the first hospitals to offer Aquablation therapy using the new Hydros Robotics System. This FDA-approved robotic system uses AI and a heat-free waterjet to ...

Solitary FDG-avid splenic lesions pose a diagnostic challenge due to the rarity of primary splenic tumors and the limitations of conventional biopsy techniques in this vascular organ. We present the ...