NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) prompts weight loss in most severely obese children and adolescents, Saudi Arabian researchers report in an April 16th on-line…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three years after a group of women with stress urinary incontinence were treated with transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TO-TVT), roughly three-quarters felt the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Both hand function and appearance are improved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with severe deformities treated by silicone metacarpophalangeal joint arthroplasty (SMPA), researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) improves in the year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), researchers from UK and Germany find in 2…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a second opinion of surgical breast pathology often leads to changes that impact treatment in women with node-negative breast cancer or ductal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Earlier tracheostomy improved outcomes in patients who needed prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery without increasing the occurrence of mediastinitis, clinicians from Ohio’s…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chemotherapy given before surgery in patients with small-cell urothelial cancer (SCUC) downstages tumors and results in significantly improved survival, a team from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite the supposed advantage of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for elderly patients with ischemic heart disease, a Danish study found no significant…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a large randomized study of hemodialysis patients with new arteriovenous grafts, daily fish oil supplementation didn’t improve long-term graft patency. However, those…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A systematic review and meta-analysis provides “reasonable” support for the current practice of giving adjuvant therapy to patients with resected biliary tract cancer…