Surgery
Is Aspirin the Target of a Discrediting Campaign?
I suspect this popular medicine has been the target of a discrediting campaign for the simple reason it competes with newer, far more expensive blood thinners and pain relievers that ...
New Therapy Improves Intermediate Liver Cancer Cure Rate by 55 Percent
Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, with more than 900,000 new cases every year, and a fatality rate that ranks third among all cancers. Recently, ...
Doctors Weigh in on the Right Way to Stop Prescribed Opioids
Opioid addiction and the illness and death associated with the misuse of these drugs is a growing health crisis. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made ...
Should Older Seniors Risk Major Surgery?
New research offers guidance on the risks of surgery and the need for frailty screening
Toe Spacers Play a Role in Correcting Foot Problems
Surgery can often be avoided with a holistic approach to realigning toes
What Parents Must Know About Gender Transition
Research raises doubts about the push to give children surgery, hormones to change their gender
What’s the Connection Between Cosmetic Procedures and Mental Health?
As interest in plastic surgery rises, so does the need to better screen patients for body dysmorphia
How Risky Is It to Go Under Anesthesia?
A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one in a million chance of dying. Hundreds of millions of operations are performed every ...
Adverse Surgical Outcomes From ‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries
Vanderbilt University Medical Center pauses the transition procedures over ethical concerns
Organ Transplant Rejections Following Infection and COVID-19 Injections, Studies Show
Most of us will never need a transplant, but for the people who do, transplants can be lifesaving. After transplant operations, recipients are told to follow a strict drug regimen ...
Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?
Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally. In 2007, we learned from ...
New Tech May Create Pathway For Women Suffering From Congential Reproductive Issues
Researchers have developed a new technology that permits the growth of fallopian tubes and uterine tissue, offering a better approach to female reproductive repair surgery and hope for women born ...
Considering Knee Surgery? Read This First
Knee surgery is common. Young adults have their anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed after tearing it when playing sports. Middle-aged people have parts of their meniscus trimmed when they have pain ...
Cataract Surgery Linked with Lessened Dementia Risk
Researchers have found strong evidence that cataract surgery could be associated with a lower risk of developing dementia. It has previously been noted that older adults with hearing loss have ...
‘Prehabilitation’ Preps Body and Mind for Surgery
A new program called “prehabilitation” designed to help patients get physically and mentally ready for an upcoming surgery may also help reduce overall costs and get them home faster, a ...
Vitamin C May Speed Recovery After Heart Bypass Surgery
Recent study finds vitamin C can improve ventricular function and shorten a patient's ICU stay