COVID Olfactory Trial Hints at Possible Benefit Small sample size limits significance of findings Jul 07, 2022
Lubricant Shots for Knee OA: No, They Really Don't Help Meta-analysis of hyaluronic acid trials throws serious shade on common practice Jul 06, 2022
Fewer Complications With Robotic Nephrectomy in Complex Kidney Tumors However, trial comparing robotic and open surgery was stopped early due to low enrollment Jul 06, 2022
First-Time Cesarean Deliveries Increased in Recent Years While repeat C-sections steadily fell from 2016 to 2021 Jul 06, 2022
What a Lifetime of Gaslighting by Other Doctors Feels Like Bridging the divide between patient and doctor Jul 05, 2022
Gender Equity in Surgery Is Much More Than Numbers Bias and discrimination persist in the field Jul 05, 2022
HCA Healthcare Facing More Litigation, This Time in Florida The health system is also fighting antitrust cases in North Carolina Jun 24, 2022
Gastric Bypass Edges Out Sleeve Gastrectomy for 10-Year Outcomes Randomized trial compared the two popular bariatric surgeries Jun 22, 2022
Guideline: Timing Is Everything for RA and Lupus Patients Needing Joint Replacement New advice on which antirheumatic meds to continue and which to stop before surgery Jun 21, 2022
Appendectomy Linked to Higher Risk of Microscopic Colitis Risk remained elevated over 10 years, Swedish study showed Jun 17, 2022
Transplant Success Without Immune Suppressive Drugs Did small pediatric case series achieve the "Holy Grail" of transplant medicine? Jun 15, 2022
'I'm a Neurosurgeon Who Can't Move. Now What?' My ski accident reminded me to keep my patients' humanity front and center Jun 15, 2022
Parents of 4-Year-Old Sue Urologist for 'Unintentional Vasectomy' The child had hernia surgery at Texas Children's Hospital, and left with a cut vas deferens Jun 15, 2022
Intraoperative Catheter Disappoints for Urinary Retention After Hernia Repair Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair trial showed no risk reduction in post-op urinary retention Jun 15, 2022
TAVR Pacemaker Rate Dips to Single Digits Nationwide, but Outlier Hospitals Remain Do worst-performing sites need more education about best practices? Jun 12, 2022
Fate of Transcatheter Tricuspid Devices: Will it Be Repair or Replacement? Many unanswered questions remain regarding devices for tricuspid regurgitation Jun 11, 2022
TAVR Devices Keep Changing -- Is This Really Helping Patients? Clinical outcomes are headed in the right direction, but better research is needed Jun 10, 2022
Promising First Dips Into a Bigger Pool of MitraClip Candidates Real-world outcomes in people with secondary MR who don't fit COAPT criteria Jun 09, 2022
Bariatric Surgery Cuts Cancer Incidence, Death Risk Study looked at people with obesity who underwent two most popular procedures Jun 03, 2022
Surgeons Call for Action to Reduce Gun Violence Group has 13 recommendations for change, as "the deaths are just the tip of the iceberg" Jun 02, 2022
AI Shows Promise in Predicting Optimal Margin Width for CRC Liver Mets A 7-mm margin width linked with prolonged survival Jun 02, 2022
Liver Preserved for 3 Days With Machine Perfusion Successfully Transplanted Patient healthy and leading normal life at 1 year Jun 01, 2022
Cochlear Implants Show Benefit in Deaf Children With Developmental Delays Implants should be considered regardless of severity of impairment, researchers argue May 24, 2022
TAVR for Aortic Regurgitation Off to a Good Start in the Real World Yet some growing pains remain for the Jenavalve Trilogy May 21, 2022
Device Type Matters for Valve-in-Valve TAVR in Small Anatomies Showdown between Sapien and Evolut valves in the LYTEN trial May 20, 2022
TAVR Stays Its Course as 10-Year Durability Data Trickle In Glimpse of longer-term valve degeneration in early TAVR patients May 19, 2022
MELD Scoring for Liver Transplants in Need of Sex Adjustment, Study Says Researchers find "pervasive sex differences" in sodium-adjusted MELD scoring system May 18, 2022
Caution Urged With Paxlovid in Transplant Patients Small case series emphasizes the need to discontinue tacrolimus prior to starting therapy May 13, 2022
New York Doc Tries to Take Down No Surprises Act But lawsuit to overturn the law is "really, really weak," legal expert says May 10, 2022
Could an Available Drug Stop Dupuytren's in Its Tracks? Phase II trial shows promise in early-stage disease May 03, 2022
Subcutaneous ICDs Take Care of Lead Complications in ATLAS Trial But do they perform as well as standard transvenous ICDs? May 03, 2022
COVID in the Donor Organ: What's the Risk? In small sample, donors gave infection to lung recipients, yet not to other organ recipients May 03, 2022
Do Pediatric Electrophysiologists Have It Harder? Clinicians discuss the dilemmas and shortcomings in the field May 02, 2022
More Intense Pain Tied to Failed Appendicitis Treatment in Kids Study showed higher pain levels led to early failure in antibiotic treatment May 02, 2022
Longer Ischemia Time Not Tied to Higher Complication Rate in Free-Tissue Transfer Main focus of microvascular surgery should be best possible H&N reconstruction, researchers say May 01, 2022
Immunotherapy Before Head and Neck Surgery Doesn’t Add to Complications Definitive surgery can be conducted safely after neoadjuvant immunotherapy, researchers conclude May 01, 2022
What's It Like to Be a Traveling Orthopedic Surgeon? Locums orthopod Sonya Sloan, MD, talks pay, lifestyle choices and operating while pregnant Apr 29, 2022
Another Robotic Approach for Bladder Cancer Removal Proves Its Mettle Robot-assisted laparoscopy with ICUD tied to better survival versus open surgery Apr 29, 2022