Is Sentinel Node Biopsy Necessary for Older Breast Cancer Patients? Study finds positive lymph nodes not an indicator for chemotherapy Apr 07, 2022
New Clue to Risk of Peritoneal Cancer After Prophylactic Salpingo-Oophorectomy Women with BRCA variant and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma had a 34-fold greater risk Apr 05, 2022
Patients Should Know Who's Operating, Surgeons Say Doctors should disclose when trainees wield the knife, especially if they plan to leave the room Apr 05, 2022
Extra Warming Efforts in Surgery Turn Out to Be Hot Air PROTECT trial finds targeting body temperatures a few degrees higher is unnecessary Apr 04, 2022
Black Patients More Often Get 'Substandard' Care for GI Cancers Retrospective study finds worse surgical outcomes, lower odds of receiving chemotherapy Apr 04, 2022
Tranexamic Acid Cuts Surgical Bleeding in Yet Another Setting But POISE-3 trial leaves open the question of cardiovascular safety Apr 02, 2022
'It's an Alien Knee in There': Mixed Feelings After Joint Replacement Study highlights common, but rarely discussed, problem Mar 28, 2022
It's Official: Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Not Safer in Cervical Cancer Final analysis of LACC trial confirms earlier findings Mar 21, 2022
Amputation After Intra-Arterial Injection of Crushed Morphine Tablets Infrared thermography aided in care decisions for acute ischemia Mar 21, 2022
FDA Warns on Using Surgical Device for Aesthetic Skin Procedures Agency details potentially life-threatening adverse events with plasma-generating device Mar 14, 2022
Fluorescence-Guided Lumpectomy Shows Promise Imaging system reduced the need for re-excision in one-fifth of patients Mar 11, 2022
Robotic Hepatectomy Shows Benefits Over Laparoscopic Surgery Shorter hospital stay, similar perioperative outcomes in matched analysis Mar 10, 2022
Radioiodine for Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer: Yea or Nay? Randomized study finds no meaningful difference in events of abnormalities between groups Mar 09, 2022
Texas Children's Hospital Puts Gender-Affirming Care on Pause Nation's largest pediatric hospital halts hormone therapy, citing possible legal ramifications Mar 08, 2022
Chipping Away at the Dogma of Axillary Dissection in Breast Cancer Ongoing trials could help some women avoid even less-invasive sentinel lymph node biopsy Mar 07, 2022
Postponing 'Non-Essential' Procedures Isn't the Only Option Outpatient surgery can be a safe and effective route for many orthopedic procedures Mar 06, 2022
Let's Realign the Surgeon-Hospital Relationship Shifting to a language of shared purpose is a good place to start Mar 05, 2022
Mass General 'Not an Outlier' in Double-Booked Surgeries The teaching hospital resolves lawsuit, changes patient consent forms Feb 24, 2022
Ethics Consult: Force Doctors to Remove Bullet From Suspect's Leg? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Feb 18, 2022
Cardiac Arrest Patients Don't Necessarily Do Better With Intubation Debate on prehospital advanced airway management continues Feb 18, 2022
Ablating High-Grade Anal Lesions Thwarts Progression to Cancer Screening followed by aggressive therapy shows benefit in phase III ANCHOR study Feb 17, 2022
Some Never Get COVID; Private Equity Targets Nurse Staffing Firms; $13K Donor Bill This past week in healthcare investigations Feb 16, 2022
Thumbs Down for IV Tramadol, FDA Advisers Say Delayed onset of pain relief remains a concern Feb 16, 2022
Gastric Bypass Most Cost-Effective for Severe Obesity, T2D? Modeling study compares Roux-en-Y, conventional medical therapy, and sleeve gastrectomy Feb 14, 2022
High-Deductible Insurance Linked to More Complex Hernias Study suggests delays in care, particularly for those with no health savings account Feb 14, 2022
Study Shows Virtually No Advancement for Black Surgical Residents Despite a more diverse applicant pool, matriculation, graduation rates remain low Feb 09, 2022
Judge Tosses Drug Company's Libel Lawsuit Against Medical Society "Pharmaceutical companies are not free to intimidate the scientific process," says ASA President Feb 08, 2022
Doc Who Branded His Initials in Patients' Livers Banned From Practice U.K. transplant surgeon, Simon Bramhall, had pled guilty to two counts of assault back in 2017 Jan 14, 2022
Older Patients With Low-Risk DCIS May Not Benefit From Surgery, Radiation Low rate of invasive recurrence, benefits of surgery and RT limited to patients under 70 Jan 05, 2022
VA Beats Private Sector Hospitals for Post-Op Surgical Mortality Study questions veterans' benefit from obtaining care outside the VA system Dec 29, 2021
Bariatric Surgery Linked to Protection Against Severe COVID-19 Obesity is a "modifiable risk factor" for severe COVID-19, researchers say Dec 29, 2021
Study: Surgical Residents Do Just Fine Without Close Supervision No difference in VA patient outcomes whether or not attendings were scrubbed in Dec 22, 2021
Black Women Most at Risk for Post-Surgical Lymphedema Black women seemed to have triple the odds of swelling after axillary lymph node dissection Dec 08, 2021
What Is a Surgeon 'Supposed' to Look Like? Gender bias makes an already challenging field that much tougher Nov 27, 2021
'Actual' 5-Year Survival Rate of 27% After Surgery, Chemo for Pancreatic Cancer Fewer than half of the survivors remained recurrence- or disease-free Nov 19, 2021
Late Hysterectomy Start Times Tied to Longer Hospital Stays Surgeries starting later in the day also associated with higher blood loss, but lower costs Nov 18, 2021
FDA OKs PD-1 Inhibitor for Adjuvant Treatment of Kidney Cancer Key trial showed 32% reduction in risk of recurrence with pembrolizumab Nov 18, 2021
Obesity Negatively Affected Outcomes in Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Higher BMI linked to longer operating times, greater blood loss, and increased costs Nov 17, 2021
Tumor Spill Common in Minimally Invasive Hysterectomies for Endometrial Cancer Few surgeons in survey reported changing post-op management after spillage Nov 16, 2021
