Nov 14, 2019

Data indicate that gallstones are the most common cause of acute pancreatitis in the United States. While patients with gallstone pancreatitis (GSP) ultimately require cholecystectomy to prevent futur...

Nov 14, 2019

THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for mortality and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is high in children who undergo surgical repair for congenital heart disease compared with the ge...

Nov 14, 2019

THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The 2019 AMN Healthcare Survey of Registered Nurses raises concerns about the outlook for the nursing profession in the United States. Cole Edmonson, D.N.P...

Nov 13, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- High-risk patients benefit from having surgery at teaching hospitals, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in the Annals of Surgery. Jeffrey H. S...

Nov 13, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- People who inject drugs (PWID) have shorter survival following cardiac surgery than non-PWID, according to a review published online Nov. 8 in BMC Infectio...

Nov 07, 2019

THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Race and poverty are not significantly tied to total knee replacement (TKR) failure or revision, according to a study published in the November issue of Arth...

Nov 05, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Among older patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, low-intensity compared with standard-intensity warfarin prophylaxis did not meet the noninferiority c...

Nov 04, 2019

Prior research indicates an association between obstructive sleep apnea and unfavorable long-term cardiovascular outcomes in the general population. Studies assessing this association in perioperative...

Nov 01, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Cosmetic Surgery for October 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as wel...

Oct 31, 2019

THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patient outcomes for appendicitis are improved with transition to a shift-based, acute care surgery (ACS) model with shorter shifts, according to a study pr...

Oct 31, 2019

THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patient outcomes for appendicitis are improved with transition to a shift-based, acute care surgery (ACS) model with shorter shifts, according to a study pr...

Oct 31, 2019

THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Delaying cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis for more than 72 hours after admission is associated with an increased length of stay and increased rates o...

Oct 31, 2019

THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The need for surgical bailout in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is low, according to a study recently published in JACC: ...

Oct 31, 2019

THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For individuals with obesity, bariatric surgery is associated with a reduced risk for skin cancer, including melanoma, according to a study published online...

Oct 29, 2019

TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- General surgery residents, especially women, often experience mistreatment, according to a study published online Oct. 28 in the New England Journal of Medic...

Oct 22, 2019

TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and substance use disorder (SUD) have a more than twofold risk for dying following valve surgery compared with pati...

Sep 16, 2019

According to recent estimates, fewer than 10% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer present with Gleason score as high as 9 or 10. “Although these patients represent a small subset of men with the d...

Sep 11, 2019

The following is the fourth in a new weekly blog series, pulled directly from the Twitter-based stories of Sayed A Tabatabai, MD, who shares touching, heartfelt, interesting details of life on the fro...

Aug 29, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- From 2001 to 2016, the use of Mohs surgery for melanoma increased more than threefold, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Dermatology. M...

Jul 25, 2019

THURSDAY, July 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In the context of cardiac surgery, there is no indication of a "July effect," describing worse outcomes in the first month of training, according to a study...