Physician Update Fall 2009
More Cure, Less Misery for Hepatitis C
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“You have a chronic disease that could kill you and, oh, by the way, says the doctor, I have a treatment with a 75 percent chance of curing you. Who wouldn’t want to take it?” asks Mark Sulkowski. “A lot of people,” he says, “and that’s been a dilemma in HCV therapy, until now, we think.”
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“You have a chronic disease that could kill you and, oh, by the way, says the doctor, I have a treatment with a 75 percent chance of curing you. Who wouldn’t want to take it?” asks Mark Sulkowski. “A lot of people,” he says, “and that’s been a dilemma in HCV therapy, until now, we think.”
Articles in this Issue
CARDIOLOGY
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Can stem cells that come from a person's own heart help undo the damage caused by a heart attack?
GASTROENTEROLOGY
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The only sure way to find an effective treatment for a chronic cough is find out what's causing it in the first place.
UROLOGY
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A study is under way to find out if the time-honored treatments are really the best treatments.
PSYCHIATRY
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation offers a safe alternative therapy for major depression in adults who've given antidepressants a valiant trial and not been helped.
ONCOLOGY
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"We live, eat and breathe the destruction of pancreatic cancer."
NEUROSURGERY
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Fifteen years ago, only about one in 10 spinal tumor patients was a candidate for surgery. Today that figure is eight to nine times greater.
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Mary Ann Ayd, managing editor
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