Perfecting the View Before you get ready to toss your glasses or contact lenses, make sure you know the pluses and minuses of LASIK eye surgery.

by Jon Nalick

 

Patch Work Engineered pig tissue implants are helping the healing process of surgically repaired tendons.

by Alicia Di Rado

 

About Face With a focus on simpler, yet more advanced procedures, plastic surgeons pioneer new techniques so that everyone can put their best face forward.

by Alicia Di Rado

 

Modern Art Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is going boldly into areas never before explored-and generating social debate along the way.

by Monika Guttman

 

Be Careful Out There Deirdre Anglin believes that the road to ending violence and injuries begins with examining the causes behind them.

by Alicia Di Rado

 

Whisper Sweet Nothings The complexity of voice problems-from laryngitis to vocal cord paralysis-need not leave you speechless.

by Lori Baker Schena

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The Aging Brain

Scientists are amassing a greater understanding of the long-term risk factors that adversely effect the brain in order to halt cognitive deterioration. .

by Monika Guttman

Healthoughts: The latest word on osteoporosis, sinusitis, incontinence and ganglion cysts.

Benchmarks: A five-minute computerized vision test helps ophthalmologists better diagnose visual disorders.

by Jill Perry