With the days getting shorter and the winter solstice quickly approaching, we tapped into the medical expertise of Elsevier Author, Meir Kryger, MD, to gain some insight on  Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a condition that affects up to 10% to 20% of the population. Dr. Kryger is a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and editorMORE

In the wake of the passing of Nobel Prize winning surgeon Dr. Joseph Murray, who carried out the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, Dr. Peter C. Neligan, an Elsevier author of the definitive textbook of the discipline, Plastic Surgery, 3rd Edition comments on Dr. Murray’s legacy of innovation. Dr. Murray died on Monday in Boston at the age of 93. “The historyMORE

Dr. Terry Canale, a widely respected orthopaedic surgeon, is the lead author of Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics, 12th edition, which is due to publish in the beginning of December. Dr. Canale has made great strides with the new edition of this 4-volume text, expanding on the use of digital content and turning it into much more than justMORE

Dr. Meir Kryger, an Elsevier Author and a Yale University professor of medicine, took some time to answer questions from the Winnipeg Free Press on the importance of getting quality sleep.  According to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health, 10 to 15 percent of adults have chronic insomnia. Another rootMORE