Metformin Protective Against Joint Replacement in Type 2 Diabetes Daily users saw lower risks for total knee, hip replacements Dec 19, 2022
One Doc's Win for Trans Youth Healthcare in Texas A Dallas endocrinologist can continue to provide hormone therapy and puberty blockers Dec 16, 2022
Fecal Transplant Failed to Boost Effects of Bariatric Surgery No impact on weight loss or metabolism compared with placebo, small study found Dec 16, 2022
New Regimen for GvHD Prophylaxis in Well-Matched Reduced-Intensity Allo-HCT Post-transplant cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, and MMF reduces GvHD without higher relapse risk Dec 14, 2022
Don't Mix Alcohol With Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Study Suggests Risk of alcohol use disorder-related hospitalizations higher with this procedure vs others Dec 14, 2022
Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear The process of clearing patients for surgery is sorely in need of improvement Dec 12, 2022
Less Is More Wins Again: Avoiding Node Dissection in Early Breast Cancer First comparison of targeted sentinel node assessment shows no difference in recurrence rates Dec 09, 2022
Do Kidney Transplant Medications Supplant IBD Drugs? Study shows many patients no longer need drugs to help keep gut disease in check Dec 08, 2022
For True Cultural Change for Women in Surgery, More Work Is Needed Qualitative aspects of survey get at heart of gender disparities in practice Dec 07, 2022
Keep Eye Surgery in the Hands of Ophthalmologists The VA's updated eye care guidelines will lower the standard of care for veterans Dec 04, 2022
A Dangerous Chilling Effect in Gender-Affirming Care Gender-affirming facilities must continue offering information and resources, despite threats Dec 03, 2022
To Combat Opioid Epidemic, Step Up Safe Prescribing Practices, Expert Urges Overprescribing a continuing problem, Benjamin Davies tells urologists Dec 02, 2022
Pre-Op Axitinib Helps for Partial Nephrectomy of Complex Renal Tumors Approach in small ongoing trial resulted in reduction in tumor size and complexity Dec 02, 2022
Ultrasound-Guided Saline Hydrodissection Promising for Carpal Tunnel Small study shows persistent benefit versus steroid injection alone Dec 01, 2022
Common Treatments for Knee Osteoarthritis May Be Harmful Steroids and NSAIDs reduced pain but not disease course, studies showed Nov 30, 2022
One in Three Patients With Unstable Pelvic Fractures Die, Study Shows Use of advanced hemorrhage control interventions should be standardized to improve outcomes Nov 30, 2022
Metastasis-Directed Therapy May Delay ADT in Advanced Prostate Cancer Surgery or radiation delayed initiation of systemic therapy by 18 months Nov 29, 2022
After Major Motorcycle Rallies, More Organs Available for Donation Study estimated 21% more organ donors, 26% more transplant recipients per day during rallies Nov 28, 2022
Spinal Cord Stimulators for Chronic Pain May Not Live Up to the Hype Retrospective study finds no reduction in opioid use vs conventional medical management Nov 28, 2022
Robotic Surgery Proves Its Mettle for Liver Cancer Fewer cases of liver failure, similar survival versus open liver resection in matched analysis Nov 23, 2022
RT After Breast-Conserving Surgery Shows No Survival Advantage Decades Later But "that's not the intent of radiation therapy," says outside expert Nov 18, 2022
Spine Surgeon Explains Carson Daly's Back Surgery The television host recently underwent an ALIF procedure after suffering back pain for decades Nov 17, 2022
Youth With Gender Dysphoria Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation Far More Often Inpatient setting offers unique opportunity to provide gender-affirming care, researchers say Nov 16, 2022
Aortic Aneurysm Score Paves the Way for More Targeted Screening Could EHR data help narrow down candidates for imaging? Nov 15, 2022
Bone Drug Reverses Damage in Hand Osteoarthritis Provocative findings with denosumab, but don't reach for the prescription pad just yet Nov 15, 2022
Fewer Hospital Trips With Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Gastric Bypass in Teens But similar risks of complications, reoperations, deaths Nov 15, 2022
Two Surgery Types Yield Similar Results in Advanced Ankle Osteoarthritis Similar clinical scores with either total ankle replacement or fusion surgery, trial shows Nov 14, 2022
COVID Vaccine Mandates in the Spotlight at the AMA's Interim Meeting Sobriety criteria for liver transplant patients also discussed Nov 14, 2022
Want a Few Weeks of Knee Pain Relief? Try This Local nerve block proves mettle in randomized trial, though benefit didn't last long Nov 12, 2022
Steroids and G-CSF Boost 90-Day Survival in Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Plus: Normothermic machine perfusion for liver transplants and Noom Weight for NASH Nov 11, 2022
Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy Unclear for Dedifferentiated Kidney Cancer Thirteen-month survival gain falls short of statistical significance in observational study Nov 10, 2022
Surgery Bests Endovascular Therapy for Most Limb-Threatening Ischemia Patients Surgical revascularization better for limb events and death when an adequate vein was available Nov 09, 2022
Can Botox for the Heart Ward Off Afib After Cardiac Surgery? Epicardial botulinum toxin generally not better than placebo in the NOVA study Nov 09, 2022
Saline Goes Head-to-Head With Balanced Crystalloid IV Fluids for Kidney Transplant Researcher argued saline should be reconsidered as the standard IV fluid used Nov 07, 2022
BP Control Beneficial for Liver Transplant Recipients Patients who kept their blood pressure under 140/90 mm Hg had better kidney function at 1 year Nov 07, 2022
Florida Medical Boards Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Kids First state to limit care for trans youth through medical board action Nov 07, 2022
Definitive Answer on Steroids for Infant Heart Surgery Falls Short STRESS trial misses primary endpoint but secondary benefits are suggestive Nov 06, 2022
Low Carb Diet Boosts Weight Loss for Liver Transplant Recipients With Obesity LCD also positively impacted patients' metabophenotype Nov 06, 2022
Danica Patrick's Breast Implant Illness The former NASCAR driver began experiencing unusual symptoms 3 years after her procedure Nov 03, 2022
CDC Just Changed Its Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Here's What to Know. Guidance covers acute, subacute, and chronic pain and replaces 2016 guidelines Nov 03, 2022