A recent publication in Interventional Pain Medicine, authored by Rohan Jotwani, MD, MBA, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and colleagues, demonstrates the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Interest in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) grew in the mid-1990s based on the belief that it could reduce the complications seen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Opioid analgesics should not be used in elderly patients with osteoarthritis even if their pain is severe, because the associated risks are so…
Jimmy K. Lee, MD, Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Sections, Yale Eye Center, discusses lasik surgery and long-term data showing prior lasik eye surgery affects measurements following…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In children in the ER, use of ketamine at a high IV dose increases the risks of airway and respiratory events, emesis, and…
C. Robert Bernardino, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Residency Program Director, Director of Ophthalmic Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery Service, Yale University, discusses eye surgery transitioning from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, bariatric surgery is associated with a low risk of death and other adverse events in the 30-day postoperative period, according to…
Hylton Mayer, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor Yale University Department of Opthalmology, discusses capsular tension rings, plastic like device used at the time of cataract surgery to assist in…
A new study by David Threadgill, Ph.D., professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, published online in the May 5, 2009…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adults with a history of low birth weight (LBW) are more prone to respiratory illnesses requiring hospitalization than are adults without such a…
