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) – The morbidity of extensive axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided without jeopardizing survival for some breast cancer patients with positive sentinel lymph…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, single-center study of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, permissive enteral underfeeding was associated with lower morbidity and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Research shows that biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) significantly reduces renal and cardiovascular complications over 10 years in morbidly obese individuals with newly diagnosed type…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with digital subtraction angiography, computed tomographic angiography is only about half as sensitive in identifying cerebrovascular injuries resulting from blunt trauma, reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Polyps located in the right hemi-colon, particularly in the cecum, seem to be a substantial and independent risk factor for delayed post-polypectomy hemorrhage,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For treatment of uncomplicated skin abscesses, the efficacy of ultrasound-guided needle aspiration is not on par with incision and drainage – it doesn’t…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Basal bolus glargine insulin once daily plus glulisine before meals effectively manages general surgery patients with type 2 diabetes, investigators report. Compared to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It is not advisable to use short-term absorbable sutures for mesh fixation after Lichtenstein inguinal hernioplasty, researchers from Sweden conclude based on review…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of artificial colloids for intravascular volume expansion is associated with greater risk of acute kidney injury and impaired coagulation than is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – During the first year after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), patency rates are similar for radial artery grafts and saphenous vein grafts, study…
