Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on Pain Relief. The transcript is also available.

The cost and number of Americans who suffer from pain are overlooked — and require innovative efforts to improve education for health care providers as well as the public, finds an editorial recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Watch a live webcast of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery on February 21 at 6:00 p.m. EST.

Also, browse through links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual procedures performed at medical centers in the United States.

Visit the new MedlinePlus Health Topic page on Bronchial Disorders.

The bronchi are two tubes that branch off the trachea, or windpipe. The bronchi carry air to your lungs...

Visit the new MedlinePlus Health Topic page on Chronic Kidney Disease.

You have two kidneys, each about the size of your fist. Their main job is to filter wastes and excess water out of your blood to make urine...

Visit the new MedlinePlus Health Topic page on Pulmonary Rehabilitation .

Pulmonary rehabilitation (rehab) is a medically supervised program to help people who have chronic breathing problems...

Watch a live webcast of aortic aneurysm surgery on February 16 at 12:00 p.m. EST, and check out the aortic aneurysm health topic page on MedlinePlus.

Also, browse through links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual procedures performed at medical centers in the United States.

Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on "Improving Life Expectancy’s Prognosis". The transcript is also available.

While a systematic review recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association does not recommend an assessment tool that best predicts a patient’s life expectancy, some of the authors provide a pioneering website to help health care providers estimate when an elderly man or woman may die.

Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on "Body Fat Unrelated to Food Protein Levels". The transcript is also available.

While eating foods with low — versus moderate or high — protein may result in less weight gain, excess calories increase body fat indiscriminately, suggests a pioneering, small study of young adults recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

February is Low Vision Month. For more information, visit the NIHSeniorHealth Low Vision page.

February is Children's Dental Health Month. Learn more about keeping your child's teeth and gums healthy by visiting the child dental health page on MedlinePlus.

Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on "Indoor Air Laws Curb Prenatal Smoking?". The transcript is also available.

The likelihood women in Massachusetts smoked during pregnancy was reduced if they lived in a city with laws that prohibited some indoor smoking, suggests an interesting study recently published in BMJ.com.