3 Dead in Listeria Outbreak; Flea Bite Ends in Amputation; Mandy Cohen's CDC Plan Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ΑρΑ«ΚΣΖ΅ staff Jul 24, 2023
The Consequences of Stripping a Surgeon's License for Live-Streaming Procedures Can live-streaming care ever play a positive role in medicine? Jul 22, 2023
Experts Demand Overhaul of Organ Transplant System During Senate Hearing Patient representative has "zero confidence" in change if UNOS remains involved Jul 21, 2023
Gastric Bypass Surgery Tied to Higher Risk of Substance Use Disorder Prior findings from same cohort showed link between alcohol use disorder and bariatric surgery Jul 21, 2023
American Guidelines Sour on Beta-Blockers for Chronic Coronary Disease For some people, revascularization to improve symptoms or help survival also endorsed Jul 20, 2023
Circumcision May Be Protective Against HIV in Men Who Have Sex With Men Voluntary medical procedure offers another option for prevention Jul 20, 2023
PCP Visits Before Emergency Surgery Tied to Lower Mortality in Older Adults Protective effect was similar for both Black and white Medicare patients Jul 19, 2023
This Common Device Can Slow Cognitive Decline, Trial Shows Hearing loss is more than a marker for dementia risk, it appears Jul 18, 2023
Doc Who Livestreamed Surgeries on TikTok Loses License Katharine Roxanne Grawe, MD, will also have to pay a fine of $4,500 Jul 13, 2023
Machine Learning Model Accurately Identifies High-Risk Surgical Patients New tool more accurate than existing risk calculator Jul 13, 2023
Age No Barrier to Preserved QoL, Functional Recovery After Surgery for CRC More than 70% of patients with a median age of 79 achieved both outcomes at 3-6 months Jul 13, 2023
Positive Surgical Margins More Likely Among Black Men With Oral Cancer Post-operative treatment, long-term survival may be affected Jul 11, 2023
New CMS Coding Shortchanges Natural-Tissue Breast Reconstruction Elisabeth Potter, MD, on the negative effect on women with breast cancer and their surgeons Jul 11, 2023 video
Novel Turmeric Derivative Drug Shows Promise in Head and Neck Cancer Compound is still in earliest stages of testing Jul 10, 2023
Oral Cancer Patients Face Worse Outcomes With Delayed Radiation Therapy Failure to initiate adjuvant radiation therapy within 6 weeks tied to survival rates Jul 10, 2023
Liquid Biopsy May Help Identify HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Cancer But concerns about false negative results linger Jul 10, 2023
Primary Surgery vs Radiation in Oropharyngeal Cancer: Does One Come Out a Winner? Higher short-term dysphagia risk with surgery, but RT/CRT had worse 5-year OS Jul 09, 2023
Postoperative Urinary Retention Common After Hernia Surgery Incidence reaches nearly one in 10 in older men Jul 06, 2023
Economical Epoprostenol Good Enough After Major Cardiac Surgery Randomized trial compared two inhaled pulmonary vasodilators Jul 06, 2023
Cannabis Use Disorder Raises Risk of Perioperative Complications Not a "harmless substance," researcher maintains Jul 06, 2023
Misinformation Obscures Standards Guiding Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Misconceptions and misinformation conflate treatments, stripping youth of essential care Jul 02, 2023
ASA: Hold GLP-1 Agonists Before Elective Surgery Or else run the risk of aspirating under anesthesia due to delayed gastric emptying Jun 30, 2023
First Cellular Therapy Approved for Type 1 Diabetes Infusion made from deceased donor pancreatic islet cells Jun 29, 2023
Fecal Matter Transplant Shows Promise in Cirrhosis Pilot trial demonstrates that FMT can boost gut health, prevent serious infections Jun 25, 2023
Hysterectomy Ultimately Needed After 1 in 8 Endometrial Ablations Ballpark figures of treatment failure suggest rising need for surgery over time Jun 23, 2023
Transfascial Mesh Fixation During Complex Hernia Repairs: To Skip or Not to Skip? No fixation was noninferior to fixation in open retromuscular ventral hernia repair, trial shows Jun 21, 2023
Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Varies by Molecular Subtype Korean study suggests need for individualized surveillance, optimized use of breast MRI Jun 21, 2023
Massive Kidney Stone Sets New Record Surgeons in Sri Lanka removed the record-setting stone earlier this month Jun 21, 2023
I Never Asked Why the Bodies Kept Coming An excerpt from Brian Williams' forthcoming book on racism, violence, and how we heal Jun 19, 2023
Gabapentinoid, Opioid Prescriptions Rose in Older Patients After Surgery Almost all procedures had an increase in both types of prescribing, Medicare data showed Jun 16, 2023
Bicuspid Aortic Valves and Aortopathy Cluster Among Close Relatives Large study supports wider screening of family members of probands Jun 15, 2023
Texas Law Aims to Prevent Another 'Dr. Death' New law gives medical board more teeth to protect patients from potentially dangerous doctors Jun 15, 2023
Dexamethasone or Surgery for Chronic Subdural Hematoma? More complications, greater risk of later surgery with glucocorticoid treatment Jun 14, 2023
Cautious Hope for Endovascular Aortic Tx in Connective Tissue Disease Success observed in usually contraindicated Marfan, Loeys-Dietz syndromes Jun 14, 2023
AMA Urged to Do More to Safeguard Adolescent Gender-Affirming Care Association needs to move from passive support to proactive protection, delegate says Jun 11, 2023
States Must Stop Criminalizing Medicine, AMA Delegates Say "This is unacceptable...and it's time for us to push back" Jun 11, 2023
Upper Airway Stimulation Device for OSA Holds Up in Real-World Analysis Another study looked at the feasibility of a noninvasive strategy for obstructive sleep apnea Jun 08, 2023
Trial Affirms Safety of Circulatory-Death Heart Transplants 6-month results reported for perfusion-tested hearts outside of normal brain-death donation route Jun 08, 2023
Nails or Sliding Hip Screws to Repair Trochanteric Fractures? Patients report similar quality of life at 1 year with either option Jun 07, 2023
New Antiviral Option for CMV Prophylaxis After Kidney Transplant Letermovir proved noninferior to standard of care in clinical trial Jun 06, 2023