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) – Some patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cancer appear to fare relatively well when treated with sunitinib before undergoing planned nephrectomy — even though…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women treated for heavy menstrual bleeding, those undergoing endometrial ablation are less likely than those having a hysterectomy to need subsequent surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Improvements in symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia are similar after treatment by transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) or photoselective vaporization of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The choice between carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy remains unclear for elderly patients at risk for ischemic stroke, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While partial nephrectomy remains the gold standard for treatment of small renal masses, laparoscopic cryoablation is a good option for selected patients, an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review of available evidence indicates that colchicine given after cardiac surgery reduces the risk of developing post-pericardiotomy syndrome, or PPS. “The data…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A couple of extra sutures makes a difference to the clinical efficacy of a mid-urethral sling procedure for treating female stress urinary incontinence,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For the treatment of ovarian endometriomas, laser vaporization is associated with earlier recurrences and more recurrences compared with laparoscopic cystectomy, although the differences…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very small breast tumors that generate extensive lymph node involvement may be more biologically aggressive than larger tumors with the same degree of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis during vaginal or cesarean delivery is no longer generally recommended. That’s one of the advisories included in an updated…
