Medical News

By Steven A. Fassler, MD, FACS, FASCRS Until just a few years ago, a moratorium prevented laparoscopic colectomy—the removal of a cancerous colon by minimally ...

Since President Obama mentioned tort reform last week, several studies have been cited as to whether such reforms would make a difference in the overall ...

By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. While hundreds of  thousands of Americans marched against the government’s hijacking of health-care in Washington Saturday, President Obama was in Minnesota ...

By Richard Rosenstein, D.O. Patients surviving a stroke are often left with severe disabilities. New devices used by our Rehabilitation Medicine specialists are having positive ...

President Obama appeared on ABC last night to discuss reform proposals with a small group of healthcare practitioners, students, executives and citizens.  What did you ...

The big news affecting all of healthcare is the subject of reform.  Today, President Obama will speak at the AMA Convention to garner support for ...

by Fernando B. Bonanni, Jr., M.D. At Abington Memorial Hospital’s Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (IMBS), we take the emphasis off the surgery and ...

by Christopher M. Pezzi, MD Director, Surgical Oncology, Abington Memorial Hospital When a young man came to Abington Memorial Hospital with chronic pain and a ...

By U.S. Senator Arlen Specter I was one of three Republicans who voted for the so-called moderates’ stimulus bill that virtually tripled the bill’s original ...

The Obama administration can begin to address the primary care physician shortage and improve the efficiency of the U.S. health care system with a single ...