New Ovarian Cancer Treatment
There’s new hope for ovarian cancer patients. Doctors are saying that giving chemo through the abdomen rather than through the vein should now be the way many ovarian cancer patients are treated.
This is actually an old method to deliver chemo; it dates back fifty years. It delivers the chemo into what’s called the intra-peritoneal area of the abdomen.
The goal is to get the remaining cancer cells after the tumor is surgically removed, in patients like Eleanor Lewis. Eleanor is looking for a way to lessen the significance of time. (Read more about New Ovarian Cancer Treatment)
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CHILDREN BREAKING BONES
Children’s playground safety is an issue that requires more attention to ensure that children’s broken bones don’t lead to complications that trouble them for the rest of their lives.
10 year old Renee Novelli is a bundle of energy. When she’s not doing gymnastics, she’s playing on her jungle gym set or riding her bike. But, all of this activity has cost her several trips to the emergency room. (Read more about CHILDREN BREAKING BONES)
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SIDS Recommendations
It’s perhaps the worst thing parents could experience: finding their newborn baby has quietly died while sleeping overnight.
Sadly, this happens too often as a result of SIDS--sudden infant death syndrome. Although some specific cases have been understood, the cause of many cases of SIDS is still unknown. SIDS is the most common cause of infant deaths beyond the first month of life in the U.S.
“Every day is something new, the smiles, the giggles…his personality is developing now. It’s so much fun,” says Cori Attali, clearly enjoying every aspect of being a new mom to five-and-a-half month old Jack. (Read more about SIDS Recommendations)
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Radiation Oncology
By Dr. Chitti Moorthy
In recent years, Radiation Oncology has made great strides in cancer treatment. Alone or in combination with other treatments, radiation therapy is dramatically raising cancer cure rates. Leading medical centers provide state-of-the-art radiation therapy in a comfortable and caring environment. (Read more about Radiation Oncology)
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AMAZING GENE TREATMENT
Doctors have developed a lifesaving treatment for a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Pompe disease.
Pompe is an inherited disorder--both parents have to have the defective gene, which is not a common thing. Pompe is a rare and fatal nerve and muscle disorder caused by the lack of an enzyme which breaks down sugar—glycogen--in the body.
The glycogen deposits in the muscle fibers instead, and destroys them (Read more about AMAZING GENE TREATMENT)
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CATCHER'S MITTS CUSHIONING
They’re the guys on the baseball diamond that get the brunt of the bangup: catcher’s get run over, they destroy their knees by crouching all day long. And now, there’s evidence that they suffer significant hand trauma, perhaps, because their gloves aren’t protecting them enough.
It’s interesting in that modern catcher’s mitts have less padding than gloves used prior to the 1960’s. The glove is more flexible, allows a better handle on the ball, an easier release if the runner is going. But the downside is that perhaps, it’s putting the catchers at risk for short term and long term hand injury. (Read more about CATCHER'S MITTS CUSHIONING)
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Dr. Iris E. Schlesinger
University Orthopedics, P.C.
19 Bradhurst Avenue, Ste 1300N
Hawthorne,
NY
10532
Call (888) 834-8517
Dr. Iris Schlesinger is an Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at Westchester Medical Center, specializing in pediatric orthopaedic surgery. She received her undergraduate degree from Hofstra University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and completed her medical degree at Albany Medical College.
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