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 – Among women about to undergo a cesarean delivery, the addition of a povidone-iodine scrub before entering the OR to a standard povidone-iodine paint application in…
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…
