Apr 12, 2019

FRIDAY, April 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For carefully selected pediatric patients, operator-directed sedation (ODS) for congenital cardiac catheterization procedures is not associated with an incre...

Apr 11, 2019

THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for surgical site infection (SSI) after cesarean delivery is increased for women covered by Medicaid versus private health insurance, according to...

Apr 09, 2019

As a family physician in private practice, our Editor in Chief, Linda Girgis, MD, understands what it means to practice in a vast area of medicine. While physicians will always juggle the challenges o...

Apr 08, 2019

MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are less likely to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or receive PCI in a timely manner, accordin...

Apr 03, 2019

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) - The presence of hepatitis C in potential organ donors has long prevented hearts and lungs from going to patients who desperately need them...

Apr 03, 2019

WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bariatric embolization is well tolerated in severely obese adults and is associated with weight loss for up to 12 months, according to a study published on...

Apr 03, 2019

WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- After implementation of the Kidney Allocation System, there was less access to kidney transplant in the black population among patients who are highly sens...

Apr 03, 2019

WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Hospital volume is inversely associated with mortality for transfemoral transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) procedures, according to a study publ...

Apr 03, 2019

WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Hearts and lungs from donors with hepatitis C viremia can be safely transplanted into patients without hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, according to a st...

Apr 02, 2019

TUESDAY, April 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In a Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus statement published online March 21 in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Inte...

Apr 01, 2019

(The March 28 story was refiled to correct the source URL at end of the story) By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - - Patients who are frail before surgery a...

Apr 01, 2019

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

Apr 01, 2019

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

Apr 01, 2019

MONDAY, April 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe hemoglobinopathies undergoing bone marrow transplantation, increasing the dose of total body irradiation is associated with a reducti...

Apr 01, 2019

MONDAY, April 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Awake endoscopic minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) performed without general anesthesia is safe and seems effective for lum...

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...