Oct 22, 2019

TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and substance use disorder (SUD) have a more than twofold risk for dying following valve surgery compared with pati...

Sep 16, 2019

According to recent estimates, fewer than 10% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer present with Gleason score as high as 9 or 10. “Although these patients represent a small subset of men with the d...

Sep 11, 2019

The following is the fourth in a new weekly blog series, pulled directly from the Twitter-based stories of Sayed A Tabatabai, MD, who shares touching, heartfelt, interesting details of life on the fro...

Aug 29, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- From 2001 to 2016, the use of Mohs surgery for melanoma increased more than threefold, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Dermatology. M...

Jul 25, 2019

THURSDAY, July 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In the context of cardiac surgery, there is no indication of a "July effect," describing worse outcomes in the first month of training, according to a study...

Jul 25, 2019

THURSDAY, July 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), there has been an increase in bariatric surgery, with proportional use of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy...

Jul 23, 2019

“At my interview for residency at a prestigious midwestern university hospital, the chairman asked me if my low grades in a few classes were due to “ chasing boys”. (sic) Then he said as long as...

Jul 22, 2019

MONDAY, July 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Only one-fourth of U.S. plastic surgery residents report receiving opioid-prescriber education, according to a study published in the July issue of Plastic an...

Jul 10, 2019

A study of nearly 20,000 patients with type 2 diabetes and severe obesity found that bariatric surgery significantly lowered the risk of macrovascular events at 5 years. Clinicians should engage patie...

Jun 27, 2019

THURSDAY, June 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who received patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, or "double-bundle" hamstring tendon grafts for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair had no signi...

Jun 25, 2019

TUESDAY, June 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Changing electronic health record (EHR) systems may cause longer operation times for eye surgeries, according to a study published online June 20 in JAMA Oph...

Jun 14, 2019

A study has found that some groups of physicians were more likely than others to perform elective upper and lower endoscopies on separate days rather than on the same day. The observed disparity repre...

Jun 07, 2019

FRIDAY, June 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The Opioid Safety Initiative has been effective for decreasing opioid prescriptions among patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, according to a study pub...

Jun 06, 2019

THURSDAY, June 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There is a 73 percent increased risk for nonvertebral fracture after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) versus adjustable gastric banding (AGB), according to a ...

May 28, 2019

TUESDAY, May 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Lower socioeconomic status is associated with an increased risk for above-knee amputation (AKA) after periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the knee, accord...

May 22, 2019

New research was presented at ATS 2019, The annual American Thoracic Society International Conference, from May 17-22 in Dallas. The features below highlight some of the studies presented at the confe...

May 13, 2019

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's Zebra Medical Vision said on Monday it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its artificial intelligence-based chest X-ray triag...

May 13, 2019

MONDAY, May 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for Parkinson disease is increased after appendectomy, according to a study presented at the 2019 Digestive Disease Week, held from May 18 to 21 in Sa...

May 08, 2019

New research was presented at AATS 2019, The Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, from May 4-7 in Toronto. The features below highlight some of the studies presented at the...

May 02, 2019

THURSDAY, May 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Using oral sedation during cataract surgery does not negatively impact patient satisfaction compared with using an intravenous (IV) sedative, according to a s...