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Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Lisa Newman, the chief of the section of breast surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, sat down with ABC News to discuss breast cancer prevention, early screenings and diagnosis discrepancies. A new American Cancer Society report, released in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, finds […]
Courtesy of Dr. Meghan Martin (NEW YORK) — With autumn in full swing, flu season is ramping up as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu season in the U.S. typically picks up in the fall and winter months and children, especially, are the most likely to get sick from influenza, […]
Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study evaluating older adults with a high risk of heart attacks or strokes has found that salt substitutions may be linked to a lower risk of death, specifically from heart disease and stroke. The study was a meta-analysis of several studies primarily based in Asia, where experts […]
Courtesy of Sean Cullen (NEW YORK) — Dr. Sean Cullen, of New York, was 9 years old when his 9-month-old brother Kevin died due to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common respiratory virus. Today, nearly 30 years later, Cullen works as both a laboratory researcher and neonatologist at New York-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for […]
Veena Nair/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The latest trend to take hold on TikTok boasts flaxseed gel as a slimy addition to beauty routines, but medical experts are advising against it, saying it lacks scientific basis. Hundreds of TikTok users have claimed on the video sharing platform that homemade flaxseed gel is “basically nature’s Botox.” […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York City gastroenterologist, already accused of raping a woman in his apartment, has now been charged with dozens of new counts accusing him of drugging the women he allegedly raped and filming the assaults, prosecutors in New York announced. Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng pleaded not guilty to […]
Lindsey Ulin (NEW YORK) — Following a mid-air scare, a doctor is calling for the Federal Aviation Administration to make policy changes and for Southwest Airlines to stock lifesaving epinephrine auto-injectors aboard passenger planes. Lindsey Ulin, an internal medicine resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, was on vacation in March and traveling […]
Ascension Michigan (DETROIT) — A Michigan doctor has been found shot dead, sparking an investigation by Detroit police’s homicide unit. The body of 53-year-old Devon Hoover was discovered when officers responded to a house for a well-being check on Sunday evening, Detroit police said. Authorities didn’t immediately release more information. Hoover, a neurosurgeon, had “a special […]
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (NEW YORK) — An emergency room doctor is opening up about “one of the most interesting cases” she’s seen in her career so far and, in the process, warning people about wire grill brush injuries. Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in […]
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