NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Based on postoperative levels of parathyroid hormone and serum calcium, more than half of patients undergoing thyroidectomy do not need routine calcium and/or vitamin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Clinicians report in The American Journal of Surgery that a high white blood cell count or low serum sodium level can help diagnose…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Laparoscopic antireflux surgery (LARS) and the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) esomeprazole are similarly effective, safe, and well tolerated strategies for the management of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Before the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system was introduced in February 2002, black patients were less likely to receive a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A brief discussion among members of the operating room team just before surgery begins to outline the procedure and review important components can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
Carl Kirschner, PhD, Organizational/Personal Effectiveness Consultant and Former College/University Dean of Students at SUNY and CUNY, discusses how emotional intelligence can help physicians better treat patients, and describes…
Dr. Francis Cordova, Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at Temple University School of Medicine, gives some recommendations for referring patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a case-control study suggest that silicone breast prostheses may increase the risk of developing anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma (ALCL) of…
Dr. Gerard J. Criner, Director of the Temple University Lung Center, talks about the use of lung volume reduction surgery in treating patients with severe emphysema. References and…