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
New Data in NSCLC Bolster Support for Perioperative Immunotherapy EFS benefit with pembrolizumab in KEYNOTE-671, but no OS benefit "yet," says investigator Jun 05, 2023
New Standard in Operable EGFR-Positive Lung Cancer "We should firmly close the door on one-size-fits-all treatment," says ASCO expert Jun 04, 2023
How a Medical Recoding May Limit Cancer Patientsβ Options for Breast Reconstruction Many believe this would restrict women's options for surgery Jun 04, 2023
Neoadjuvant Chemo Flops Versus Upfront Surgery for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Survival 13 months better with surgery, but "curiosities" in neoadjuvant arm muddy the results Jun 04, 2023
De-Escalated Surgery Suffices for Low-Risk Cervical Cancer Simple hysterectomy non-inferior to radical operation Jun 02, 2023
'Practice Changing' Trial on Activity Recs After Prolapse Surgery In randomized study, noninferior outcomes for expedited activity versus standard wait of 6 weeks May 31, 2023
Standing, Walking After Major Surgery Tied to Less Risk of Post-Op Complications Median mobilization was 1.6 hours per day, less than recommended May 31, 2023
Bariatric Surgery in Kids With Obesity Becoming More Common Increased rates observed after a 2019 policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics May 30, 2023
OTC Hearing Aids Are Here, but Are They Shaking Things Up? The market is still sorting itself out, experts say May 25, 2023
Less-Invasive Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer Proves Safe, Effective Radical resection rate noninferior to open surgery in early-stage disease, with similar survival May 25, 2023
Extravascular ICD Continues to Show Effectiveness Anti-tachycardia pacing prevented shocks in about half of cases May 23, 2023
From Botched Buttocks to Botulism Insidious threats continue to plague the global cosmetic bazaar May 22, 2023
