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) – Sleeve gastrectomy leads to significant improvement or resolution of type 2 diabetes in morbidly obese patients, and is much more effective than intensive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older patients with small localized kidney tumors treated with partial nephrectomy live longer than those treated with radical nephrectomy, a new study suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While the use of triclosan-impregnated sutures has been widely endorsed, they do not reduce the rate of surgical site infections, according to the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In looking back at more than 30,000 patients who had major open abdominal surgery over a five-year period, researchers found that those who…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A multicenter center study has shown that adding cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and preoperative radiotherapy improves overall survival after excision of high-risk rectal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing mechanical valve replacement, performing a concomitant Maze procedure during surgery reduces the rate of subsequent thromboembolic events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Disease-free survival is not improved after resection of stage III colon cancer when cetuximab is added to chemotherapy with leucovorin, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a European study, patients at high risk of recurrent gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who received imatinib (Gleevec; Novartis) for three years after…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Varicocelectomy leads to significant improvements in sperm count and motility, regardless of surgical technique (i.e., high ligation, inguinal or subinguinal approach), a meta-analytic…
