About 200,000 Americans have bariatric surgery each year in an attempt to overcome obesity after diet and exercise have failed. The surgery, in effect, changes the anatomy of the digestive system to limit the amount of food that can be consumed and the amount of food that the body can digest. Two procedures are most commonly used in the United...Read More
Every day sees further development in the science of medicine. Dr. Evan R. Goldfischer provides an overview of some of the new medications and treatments now available to our patients. Developments in the treatment of OAB Pros and cons of the first OTC medication for OAB in women The FDA has recently approved Oxytrol for Women,...Read More
New guidelines, issued in February by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urge vaccination against the human papilloma virus for all boys aged 11-12. Vaccination for girls aged 11-12 has been recommended since 2006. We offer this review of the facts about HPV to help parents make an informed decision for their children. Genital...Read More
Shock waves, fiber optic telescopes, and lasers are among the high-tech tools we use in minimally-invasive surgery to break stones down to a size that can be easily passed. Kidney stones have troubled mankind for about as long as we’ve had kidneys. Scientists have even found evidence of kidney stones in a 7,000-year-old Egyptian mummy....Read More
How does a physician know that his or her patients are in compliance and responding to the treatment plan as well as they should be? Were a patient to pass a kidney stone and then get no additional treatment nor adjust diet and fluid intake, he or she would have a 50 percent chance of...Read More
The last fifteen years have seen remarkable advances in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. new medications continue to be developed along with high-tech procedures to relieve urinary problems this condition causes. By the age of sixty, about 50 percent of American men will have developed benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). This enlargement of the prostate...Read More
