Surgery General
Mar 12, 2019
When I departed Scotland in 1985 to travel to America for my surgical oncology fellowship (breast surgery fellowships had not been invented by then), I left a country where I had experienced no female...
Feb 11, 2019
Studies and news articles about the importance of the relationship between physicians and patients are prolific; the take away is always the same: better, more frequent communication and deeper empath...
Jan 28, 2019
Coronary artery bifurcation stenosis is a technically challenging lesion subset that interventional cardiologists encounter on a routine basis. The optimal approach to this high-risk lesion subset rem...
Jan 14, 2019
Evidence suggests that thyroid nodules are common in the general population, with incidence increasing with age. Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a commonly used biopsy tool for diagn...
Dec 15, 2018
A comparison of outcomes among unselected intermediate- and high-risk patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) indicates that the...
Nov 18, 2018
Hospital-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for 100,000 to 200,00...
Nov 05, 2018
The following was originally posted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases blog. The C. difficile sniffing dogs are back! There are several pr...
Aug 24, 2018
In light of the current “opioid epidemic” in the United States, a dire need exists for alternatives to opioid medications for treating chronic pain. “Evidence suggests that many patients are see...
Jul 02, 2018
Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy with a continuously growing incidence over the last several decades in the United States. However, most of thyroid cancers are indolent and rarely resul...
Jun 22, 2018
Arthritis, which includes osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or other types, ranks as a leading cause of disability and pain in the United States. “Arthritis accounts for more than 100 ...
Jun 20, 2018
A transitional care intervention program appears to have achieved the goals of improving patient outcomes post-discharge, lowering costs of care, enhancing quality of life, and preventing hospital rea...
May 22, 2018
Kenilworth, N.J., May 22, 2018 – Trusted by doctors and other healthcare professionals for more than a century, The Merck Manual, now published in its 20th Edition, offers readers the tactile sati...
May 03, 2018
The Impact of EVLP Evidence suggests that ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is increasingly being used to evaluate and treat donor lungs for transplantation. However, data are lacking on the impact of EV...
Mar 16, 2018
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) ranks among the most common and fatal types of brain tumors that occur in adults, and the disease is largely characterized by its invasive and aggressive behavior. Variou...
Mar 14, 2018
Last month in this space, I wrote about “Things doctors should not do—like attacking their nurses” and included this story among others: “A surgeon at a Long Island, New York hospital, angr...
Mar 13, 2018
The majority of patients who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often have surgery performed without having a genetic test completed, or before testing for BRCA1/2 and other cancer genes has...
Mar 13, 2018
By Chris Cole Managing Editor Pros & Cons With Perioperative Beta-Blockers Previous research indicates that perioperative beta-blockade among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who ...
Mar 05, 2018
The 2017-18 influenza season peaked in early February and is now on the decline, according to a data published by the CDC March 3rd. Here are some summary points. The percentage of outpatient vis...
