Surgery General
Jun 09, 2017
Republicans are trying to cut health care spending. But hacking away at Medicaid, weakening coverage requirements and replacing Obamacare’s subsidies with a convoluted tax credit will not deal with...
Jun 07, 2017
If left untreated, about half of bypass vein grafts become occluded within 10 years of surgery. “Both statins and aspirin carry class I indications from the American College of Cardiology and the Am...
Jun 07, 2017
Join us Wednesday, July 12 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Jeff Segal, MD, on defensive medicine, associated costs, and how to avoid both, inspired by his op-ed piece T...
Jun 05, 2017
Several years ago, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an expert consensus statement on best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) to prov...
Jun 01, 2017
Tucked into President Trump’s 2018 budget are several provisions to tackle medical malpractice reform, an effort to slash healthcare costs by seeking to impact the everyday practice of defensive med...
Jun 01, 2017
Join us Wednesday, June 21 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on the drivers of increasing healthcare costs in the U.S. Topics to be discussed include: ...
May 30, 2017
Throughout the United States, the chronic use of opioids continues to be a substantial burden to the healthcare system in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economic costs. Studies show that the U.S. ...
May 28, 2017
Hope for Patients Suffering with Chronic Rhinosinusitis For patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), every day can mean dealing with headaches, pain, facial pressure, and severe nasal ...
May 24, 2017
Studies have shown that playing music in the operating room (OR) while performing surgery can benefit operative staff by improving their levels of physiologic stress and enhancing operative performanc...
May 16, 2017
A Weekend Effect for PCI? Few large-scale studies have assessed whether or not PCI procedures conducted during the weekend result in worse outcomes than procedures performed on weekdays. Nearly 1.3 m...
May 15, 2017
Bariatric surgery has become one of the most effective interventions for inducing weight loss among obese patients. Several operations are available for patients considering bariatric surgery, includi...
May 11, 2017
With America facing an opioid epidemic, the most effective diagnostic tool for uncovering misuse and abuse of opiates remains the urine-drug testing that numerous businesses and physicians rely on. ...
May 10, 2017
According to data from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), heart failure (HF) is a common but often unrecognized and misdiagnosed condition that affects nearly 6 million Americans. HF is the ...
May 09, 2017
Told from the perspectives of four families devastated by opioid addiction, the HBO documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You offers a harrowing, unflinching look at the deadly epidemic currently fa...
May 09, 2017
Volume Standards for Thoracic Surgeries Few studies have assessed whether or not minimum volume standards for surgeries are associated with differences in outcomes in thoracic surgical procedures. Fo...
May 08, 2017
More than half of physicians practicing in the United States have some sign of burnout, according to recent reports, and previous research has shown a link between increased administrative workload an...
May 04, 2017
One in five people experience reflux at least once a week, triggering 2.2 million visits to ambulatory care centers per year. Primary care physicians often hear the typical symptoms of reflux, such ...
May 04, 2017
“The prevailing consensus is that oral anticoagulation should be continued for at least 2 to 3 months after a successful ablation,” says Peter A. Noseworthy, MD. “However, AF patients often do n...
May 03, 2017
Join us Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on the U.S. opioid epidemic. Topics to be discussed include: The current status of the ...
May 01, 2017
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat and limits our ability to prevent and treat an increasing amount of infections caused by bacteria. According to the CDC, there is no system in place to track ...