Robotic surgery represents the latest advancement in minimally invasive surgery, utilizing small incisions for procedures that once required large abdominal or thoracic openings. This technique offers the same…
In this episode of “Newsworthy Stories,” Jacqueline Jimenez speaks with Bohdan Pomahac, MD, a leading plastic surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Robert Chelsea, the first African-American…
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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among older patients with an intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), those undergoing endovascular repair have a lower long-term mortality risk than those undergoing…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of small bowel obstruction (SBO) developing because of adhesions following abdominal or pelvic surgery is generally lower with laparoscopic procedures than…
