Jan 07, 2020

Agency says it is still too early to know how severe this year's flu season will be. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Flu continues to spread throughout the United States and has reached...

Dec 27, 2019

The longer patients continue with buprenorphine treatment, the lower their risk of adverse outcomes.   THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Buprenorphine treatment may be needed ...

Dec 05, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There is considerable variation across counties in receipt of curative-intent surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a stud...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) converted from medial unicompartmental (or "partial") knee arthroplasty (UKA) has a risk for revision that is threefold higher t...

Dec 02, 2019

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

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who are frail and very frail have high rates of postoperative mortality across all levels of operative stress, according to a study published onli...

Nov 27, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Change in the U.S. allocation system for donor hearts has reduced waitlist mortality, but posttransplantation outcomes may have been worsened, according to...

Nov 26, 2019

Clinical guidelines recommend that patients who undergo invasive procedures have a platelet count level above 50x10^9/L; these guidelines historically have applied to all patients and do not specifica...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who undergo bariatric surgery may be at increased risk for nutritional deficiencies years later, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in Clinica...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The five-year incidence rate of joint surgery in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients is twice as high as in the general population, and this rate has remained ...

Nov 21, 2019

THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Firearm injury seems to have a lasting effect, with survivors of gunshot wounds (GSW) having negative outcomes for years, according to a study published onl...

Nov 20, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS) thalamotomy shows continued benefit for suppression of medication-refractory essential...

Nov 18, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The long-term risk for women with stress urinary incontinence needing surgical revision or removal after initial placement of synthetic midurethral slings is ...

Nov 15, 2019

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- About 2.7 million emergency department visits for sports injuries occurred during 2010 to 2016, according to a study published online Nov. 15 in the National ...

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...