RedScrubs
The Resource for Medical Professionals

Learn more about the Balloon Sinuplasty instruments and how they are used to help treat chronic sinusitis.

The ways on how to cut risks and complications after a medical surgery.

Pancreatitis is a painful, debilitating disease requiring significant pain medications, and sometimes surgery. For some patients neither of those treatment options are effective. A new technology from UAB may allow some patients an alternative.

Far from just being decorations on your fridge, magnets are used in countless products every day. From ushering trains along the tracks to helping produce sound in your car speakers, magnets play a lot of roles. Now, powerful magnets are even being used to help heal the human heart.

Imagine waking up right in the middle of surgery. It might sound like a nightmare, but some surgeons and their patients actually prefer it. It’s a technique called “awake brain surgery” and it’s proving to be very effective.

25 million Americans have reflux disease and now they have a new option to treat it. Using a newly-approved device for the first time in the U.S., surgeons can fix chronic heartburn without making a single incision.

Children laughing, a barking dog, a screaming siren — sounds most of us take for granted. For people who are deaf, they are noises they only wish they could hear. Now, a “bionic ear” device is helping their world come alive.

The good news is that more women than ever before are beating breast cancer. The bad news is those survivors are dealing with another problem that’s even more widespread than some thought. A new study has found that a majority of women who overcome breast cancer face a new battle with lymphedema, a painful condition caused by swelling — one they will have to fight the rest of their lives.

A new approach may cut the amount of drugs you need before surgery, and the time it takes to recover afterward. Some doctors are using ultrasound machines to control where and how much anesthesia is used.