People get moles removed for a handful of reasons. Sometimes it&rsquo;s purely cosmetic, other times it&rsquo;s because the mole shows signs of potential skin cancer. Whatever the case, the last thing you&rsquo;d expect after getting a mole removed is for

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                                              Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton have more in common than yesterday&rsquo;s news. They&rsquo;re spray tan fans and like other pale-skinned North Americans they&rsquo;re opting for dodging the sun&rsquo;s rays wh

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Coronary artery disease is the number one killer of women. Learn more from our experts about women and coronary artery disease.

Women present coronary artery disease nearly 10 years after men do. Female hormones offer them some protection against it. Learn more from Omid Javadi, MD, from Regional Medical Center of San Jose in this video.

Are women at greater risk for coronary artery disease?

While the injection of a steroid such as cortisone can have an anti-inflammatory effect on tennis elbow, doctors don't all agree on whether it's a good idea. Learn more from our experts about how steroid injections affect tennis elbow.

While the injection of a steroid such as cortisone can have an anti-inflammatory effect on tennis elbow, doctors don&#39;t all agree on whether it&#39;s a good idea. The problem is that even though a cortisone injection can give you dramatic and quick relief of symptoms, it may keep you from slowing down and stopping the aggravating activity. If the condition becomes more chronic, a patient might want to seek multiple injections, which could cause weakening and damage to the tendon and possibly the bone as well.&nbsp; 
 
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How do steroid injections affect tennis elbow?

The Mi-Eye is an innovative device that uses a needle with an integrated camera and light source to perform a diagnostic arthroscopy in the doctor’s office. Learn more from our experts.

The Mi-Eye devise is a needle with a camera and a light that doctors use to evaluate and diagnose joint problems during arthroscopy, so they can see directly into the joint space.

What is the Mi-Eye device?

Platelet-rich plasma therapy is a treatment for aiding the regeneration of ligament and tendon injuries. Learn more from our experts about platelet-rich plasma therapy.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment is based on the theory that the bloodstream has healing chemicals in the platelet-rich section of the blood. So, if you think about it, if you cut your skin, you bleed, and that blood has chemicals which tell the skin to mend. If you break a bone, the bone bleeds, and the blood has chemicals which tells the bone to mend. 
 
In PRP, healthcare professionals take the blood from your arm (just like in a traditional blood test), but instead of spinning it 30 times a minute, they spin it much faster to concentrate those platelets in a concentration 500 times greater. They then inject that platelet-rich plasma into damaged tissue, which can help it to heal when your own body couldn&rsquo;t do it. 
 
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What is platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy?

Why is it important to ask about the operating room team? A good surgeon typically works with the same few anesthesiologists, nurses and medical assistants. Learn more from our experts about the operating room team.

It&rsquo;s important to ask about the operating room team, so you know who is working on your operation, says Vicki Pettigrew, RN, of HCA Englewood Community Hospital. Watch this video to learn more.

Why is it important to ask about the operating room team?

Injections of a corticosteroid into a joint are done mainly for people with 1 or 2 inflamed joints that are not getting better with disease-modifying treatments. Learn more from our experts on what corticosteroid injections into joints are for.

Injections of a corticosteroid into a joint are done mainly for people with 1 or 2 inflamed joints that are not getting better with disease-modifying treatments, such as methotrexate or biologics. The injections can reduce inflammation, pain, and other symptoms for a period of months. But they do not appear to have long-term effects on the disease. For people with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that affects only a few joints, steroid injections may be a good option instead of steroid pills. 
 
The advantage of joint injections over taking corticosteroids as pills is that some of the dangerous side effects of oral corticosteroids are much less likely to occur. These include heart disease and osteoporosis, which people with RA already have a higher risk of developing. Corticosteroids should not be injected into spinal joints.&nbsp; 
 
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