Dealing with pancreatic cancer can feel overwhelming, but there’s a lot happening in medicine that’s changing how ...

Treatment for pancreatic cancer is varied and can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and newer approaches like ...

A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove small samples of tissue from the prostate gland. It's a method to test for prostate cancer if a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test or digital rectal ...

For biopsy of indeterminate lung nodules, navigational bronchoscopy was on par with transthoracic needle biopsy and led to fewer complications, the VERITAS trial showed. Procedural complications ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In today’s Health Headlines, October is Liver Awareness Month – how a biopsy helps diagnose liver diseases, why fatty liver disease is now on the rise, and how it can ...

Liver biopsy is the gold standard method for the grading and staging of chronic viral hepatitis, but optimal biopsy specimen size remains controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...

Your doctor may recommend a liver ultrasound to check for signs of liver disease, and knowing what to expect can help put you at ease. A liver ultrasound is one of a few tests your doctor can order if ...

Why is improving Wilson's disease diagnosis important? Wilson's disease is an inherited disease that leads to a build-up of copper in affected parts of the body. Diagnosis usually occurs in children ...

1 Division of Hepatology, Department of Upper GI, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, ...