Samiha Khanna

Blogs by Samiha Khanna

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended in May 2017 that doctors should not screen adults who don't have signs or symptoms of thyroid cancer.…

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Although additional research is needed, scientists at Duke Health are reporting results from a small, early-stage study of an experimental autism therapy for…

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Shelley Hwang, MD, chief of breast surgery at the Duke Cancer Institute, has been named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people for 2016 as a pioneer in her…

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Patients who need their thyroid glands removed should seek surgeons who perform 25 or more thyroidectomies a year for the least risk of complications,…

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El bebé Elijah se encuentra bien después de que al nacer le diagnosticaran enfermedad hepática rara. He owes his life to a stranger who offered to donate a portion of her liver…

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Duke researcher Joseph McClernon, PhD, spends his days studying nicotine addiction in hopes of finding new ways to help people quit smoking and live healthier…

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Randy Pence iba a morir si no se le practicaba el trasplante de médula ósea que necesitaba para tratar su leucemia crónica. A match was found through the National Bone Marrow Donor Program.…