Don't be blas about skin cancer With summer here, many of us plan to spend a great deal of time having fun in the sun. However, the rate of skin cancer is rising sharply, and doctors are discovering one million new cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer and 44,000 cases of melanoma in the U.S. each year. Clearly, there is an environmental connection between sun exposure and skin cancer. A full-body skin examination by a dermatologist is one way to diagnose skin cancer at its earliest treatable stage. You can also get a referral online .
Stents are tiny metal tubes used to keep collapsed arteries open.
Coronary stents, which were first approved by the FDA in the mid-1990s, are often used after cardiac angioplasty, a common procedure which helps restore blood flow to people with blocked heart arteries. Recent studies show that patients who had heart attacks and were given stents after angioplasty were 71 percent less likely to need bypass surgery during the same hospital admission than those who did not have a stent. New diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer Doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital now offer a new test to evaluate and diagnose pancreatic diseases. EUS provides detailed images of the pancreas and adjacent vessels, showing small lesions that may be missed by other tests. EUS can show subtle changes in people with chronic pancreatitis and can also detect gallbladder and bile duct disease.