Mandatory Retirement Age for Physicians: Yea or Nay? Ron Harman King says age alone is arguably a poor indicator of skill Sep 03, 2023 video
Patients See Better Outcomes With Female Surgeons, Studies Find Fewer complications and lower likelihood of adverse postoperative outcomes with women surgeons Aug 31, 2023
Less Velopharyngeal Insufficiency at Age 5 With Earlier Cleft Palate Surgery More infants with early primary surgery had canonical babbling at 1 year Aug 30, 2023
Early Cholecystectomy Questioned for More Severe Acute Biliary Pancreatitis Retrospective analysis suggests worse outcomes versus delayed procedure Aug 25, 2023
Mohs Surgery Best for Early-Stage Merkel Cell Carcinoma? Retrospective data suggest superior survival in pathologically confirmed node-negative disease Aug 23, 2023
Older Surgical Procedure for Pelvic Prolapse Repair Prevails in Randomized Trial Another study showed vaginal estrogen during prolapse repair did not affect surgical outcomes Aug 17, 2023
Removing Race-Corrected Pulmonary Function Tests May Alter Lung Cancer Care Path to eliminating these tests, while crucial, will be challenging, researchers say Aug 16, 2023
Residency: Long Hours and Lifetime Connections Adriana Wong on bonding with people who "become your friends throughout the years" Aug 15, 2023 video
Who Is to Blame for the Rampant Overtreatment of Peripheral Artery Disease? The loudest critics are the biggest offenders Aug 13, 2023
Most Appendicitis Patients See Good Long-Term Outcomes With Conservative Tx Decades after antibiotic treatment, 60% of patients had avoided appendectomy Aug 10, 2023
Can Aromatherapy Relax Post-Op Patients? Cardiac surgery patients report better sleep after inhaling peppermint essence Aug 03, 2023
Study Questions Relationship Between Hospital Competition and Surgical Quality Outcomes were mixed, depending on the operation Aug 02, 2023
Novel Drug Reduces Acute Pain After Common Surgeries Investigational sodium channel blocker shows benefit in two trials Aug 02, 2023
Should Surgery Be Offered for Malignant Bowel Obstruction? Study finds no benefit in terms of days alive and out of the hospital, but symptom burden eased Aug 02, 2023
Handheld Pen Helps Surgeons Distinguish Between Thyroid, Parathyroid Tissues Dye-less device works in about 15 seconds Aug 02, 2023
Trial Supports GLP-1 After Underwhelming Metabolic Surgery Helped more patients achieve clinically significant weight loss Jul 27, 2023
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 app 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
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
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
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
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
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
Cannabis Use Disorder Raises Risk of Perioperative Complications Not a "harmless substance," researcher maintains Jul 06, 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
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
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
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