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…
A consultant surgical gastroenterologist at Manipal Hospital, Sarjapur Road, provides an overview of the surgical gastroenterology department. He discusses advanced laparoscopic procedures for liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and GI…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In surgical patients at high risk of contaminated incisions, a simple protocol of daily wound probing reduces the rate of surgical site infections,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vascular complication rates are higher with an antegrade rather than retrograde femoral approach to percutaneous endovascular procedures in the lower extremities, a Michigan…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In most patients with localized renal cancer, simple enucleation may provide results equivalent to those of standard partial nephrectomy, Italian researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding extra protein to enteral nutrition for critically ill children is safe and may help improve their protein metabolism, Spanish researchers report. Critically…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urologists outline the best evidence-based management of postprostatectomy incontinence in a new review published in European Urology. Despite improved surgical techniques, the prevalence…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Evidence from a case-series review and a meta-analysis of other published studies indicates that pelvic lymph node dissection during radical prostatectomy increases the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative antibiotics started more than 24 hours before cardiac surgery may be more effective than shorter-duration prophylaxis in preventing sternal surgical site infections,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing more lymph nodes from patients with lymph node positive renal cell carcinoma meant fewer died of the disease, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sodium bicarbonate isn’t any more effective than sodium chloride at preventing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with diabetic nephropathy, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the short term, uterine artery embolization (UAE) for symptomatic uterine fibroids has advantages over hysterectomy or myomectomy in terms of faster recovery,…
