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Cataracts have been around for a long time, but methods of correcting vision in people who have them have changed. Lisa Park, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology NYU Langone Medical Center and Chief of Service at Bellevue Hospital Center discusses the options.

Actavis PLC and Medicines360, a nonprofit women's health pharmaceutical company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of Liletta (levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system), an intrauterine device (IUD) providing up to 3 years of safe and effective contraception.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee on immunization practices today approved including Merck's Gardasil 9 vaccine in a list of recommended vaccinations for children and young adults. The vaccine got US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in December, 2014. The vaccine is an improvement on the older version of Gardasil in that it offers protection against 5 more types of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) than the original product.

A lot has changed in the field of plastic surgery which was was also greatly impacted by the economy in recent years. Looking to the future there remain many questions about what the field will look like in years to come.

Survey results show health care consumers were generally unfamiliar with the term "COPD," but recognized "emphysema."

While there are new ways for patients to lose excess body fat work has also been done to repurpose some of that fat and use it to shape other parts of the body.

The field of plastic surgery has come a long way in just a few years with new developments in how to help patients lose weight, and get the body they want. One of the latest tools used in this area is a procedure known as fat melting.

Colon cancer is declining, and as a result, specialists like Mark Pochapin, MD director of the Divsion of Gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center are finding even more to love about their field. Plus, there's the challenge of mastering a complex system of organs and tissues. "The GI tract has something for everyone," Pochapin said in a recent interview.

Sanofi's Toujeo (insulin glargine [rDNA origin] injection, 300 U/mL) is a once-daily, long-acting basal insulin product designed to improve glycemic control in adults with type 1 and/or type 2 diabetes.

Craig Spencer, MD, the Manhattan emergency physician who contracted Ebola as a volunteer in Guinea, West Africa, says he has recovered from the illness -- but not from his treatment in the press. He is not too happy with the actions of New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo or New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie either.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new antibacterial drug combination product, ceftazidime-avibactam (Avycaz/Forest Labs), for use in complicated intra-abdominal infections.

The FDA has approved a rapid test for an Ebola antigen that can diagnose infection in people who are asymptomatic.

Music can have a positive impact on patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to ongoing research.

Burnout is a hallmark of depression and present in nearly all cases of atypical depression, according to a study published in the International Journal of Stress Management.

When participants had the chance to help other players in a simulation involving real money, they often chose to do so unconditionally instead of with strings attached, according to a PLOS One study.

The Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Middleton released a video in support of the United Kingdom's first Children's Mental Health Week, in which open conversation between parents and their children about mental health is encouraged.

A new laser surgery could eventually prove to be the most effective way to treat cataracts. While questions still remain about the technology answers are coming every day as it becomes more widely used.

From learning more about the causes of cataracts to other conditions seen by ophthalmologists on a regular basis technology is providing new treatment options to allow patients better vision.

Among the approximately 382 million people who have type 2 diabetes (T2DM) worldwide, approximately 20% live in South-East Asia and 65.1 million live in India. Asian populations are racially, demographically, culturally and socioeconomically heterogeneous. Researchers have identified unique trends in Asians diagnosed with T2DM.

It's been nearly 3 years since Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, performed the most comprehensive face transplant ever done, a procedure that gave a Virginia man a new face, jaws, teeth, and tongue. Now NYU Langone Medical Center's chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Director of the Institute of Plastic Surgery and Helen L. Kimmel professor of reconstructive plastic surgery, Rodriguez is poised to do New York's first face transplant. He's just waiting for the phone to ring with news that a donor has been found.

The most common causes of lipodystrophy are insulin injection, antiretroviral drugs, and hereditary disorders. Some patients with insulin-related lipodystrophy also develop metabolic dysfunction, including insulin resistance, elevated free fatty acids level, abnormal adipocytokine secretion, and ectopic fat deposition.

Even with the number of patients being screened for colorectal cancer screening increasing every year there continues to be a concerted effort to push that number up and the number of cancer related deaths down.

While Colonoscopy may be the most common form of colorectal cancer screening there have bee new developments in the field which could provide reliable results without patients undergoing a procedure which many fined uncomfortable.

As the number of people being screened for colorectal cancer increases doctors are able to catch more cases before they become a matter of life or death. While colonoscopy is currently the most common option there are new developments in the field every day.

Study results show that continuous cardiac monitoring is an effective (and cost-effective) option for detecting atrial fibrillation in stroke patients.

By 2050, the US Census Bureau predicts half the US population will be people of color. For dermatologist Nada Elbuluk, assistant professor at NYU Langone's Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology that's great news.

Now that extensive facial transplant surgery has been proven effective doctors are looking for ways to improve the procedure and similar

Researchers report that mice with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (an animal model of brain inflammation that is used to study multiple sclerosis) that were fed a diet that included cinnamon powder experienced a reduction in symptom severity.

The best method for smoking cessation can be determined by a blood test, according to findings published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

In March of 2012 Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, DDS, was the leader of a surgical team in Maryland that completed a 36 hour full facial transplant surgery. Lessons from that operation will be used in future procedures of the face and other body parts.