Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, explains why back surgery is rarely the answer, and what the first ...

While these drugs can help patients shed pounds, they are not a permanent solution. Most people regain nearly 70% of lost ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the factors limiting broader adoption are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have ...

The legislation to continue ACA funds for three years passed with unanimous support from Democrats and a group of Republicans ...

Cancer’s cruelest trick is its ability to disappear, only to reappear years later in a new organ or a familiar scar. The fear ...

About 4 in 5 adults will experience back pain in their lifetime, but 80% of simple back and neck pain cases can be resolved without medical intervention.  Eeric Truumees, MD, a spine surgeon at Austin ...

Reoperation rates between cervical disc replacement and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion didn’t see significant differences in reoperation risks. However disc replacement had some advantage in ...

Both the new weight loss drugs and bariatric (weight loss) surgery improve body composition in patients with obesity by ...