'What Goes Up, Must Come Down' You might be surprised at what turns up in patients' rectums, unless you're an ED doc Sep 01, 2021
Gunshot Victims Cost One Hospital $672,000 a Month, and It's Only Going Up One-third of wounded patients at Cleveland trauma center patients were uninsured Sep 01, 2021
Improved Survival With Surgery in Metastatic Breast Cancer Significant benefits in ER+, PR+, HER2+ disease, neoadjuvant vs adjuvant chemotherapy Aug 31, 2021
LAA Occluder Opens Doors to Patients Who Can't Tolerate Blood Thinners Even Briefly The Amulet IDE trial that led to Amplatzer Amulet's FDA approval Aug 30, 2021
Can Image-Guided Fibrosis Ablation Help in Persistent Afib? Targeting fibrosis in afib with minimal fibrotic disease may improve outcomes, says researcher Aug 30, 2021
Stenting or Surgery for Patients With Carotid Artery Stenosis? No differences in outcomes seen between groups Aug 30, 2021
Edoxaban: A Mixed Bag for TAVR Patients Needing Anticoagulation Weighing positive efficacy data against excess GI bleeds Aug 28, 2021
Revamped Valve Disease Guideline: Europe Sees Nearly Eye to Eye With U.S. There is a different approach to deciding the suitability of TAVR, however Aug 28, 2021
Maybe Avoid These Specialists for Your Next Colonoscopy Certain specialties performed better quality colonoscopies than others, meta-analysis finds Aug 27, 2021
Robot-Assisted Prostatectomy Tied to Fewer Complications Taiwan study also saw shorter hospital stays versus open or laparoscopic surgeries Aug 25, 2021
Can Liver Donor Biomarker Predict Liver Transplant Rejection? Findings could support a patient-centered approach to liver transplantation, expert says Aug 23, 2021
Surgical Tray Recalled After Two Infant Deaths Class I recall due to missing instructions for surgical scalpel used for critically ill newborns Aug 20, 2021
Kidney Transplant Outcomes Improved Over Past Quarter-Century Patient and graft survival rates have increased since 1996 Aug 18, 2021
Liver Transplant Sex Disparities Vanish With Living-Donor Access Women who qualified for deceased donor organs had significantly worse MELD scores Aug 18, 2021
Rebrand of Nurse Anesthetists Met With Criticism From Physician Group The American Society of Anesthesiologists called the name change "medical title misappropriation" Aug 16, 2021
Robotic Surgery's Impact on the Next Generation of Surgeons How tech will revolutionize training Aug 14, 2021
Incomplete Polyp Resection Proves Tricky Business for Cancer Risk Expert stresses the importance of high-quality colonoscopy Aug 13, 2021
Time to Break the Abstinence Rule Before Liver Transplants? Small study suggests alternative criteria to the "6-month rule" may be needed Aug 11, 2021
UNMC Mourns Surgeon Killed in Plane Crash James Edney, former chief of the division of surgical oncology, was piloting the small aircraft Aug 09, 2021
Are Hemoglobin Cutoffs for Anemia Outdated? A growing call for WHO criteria to be tightened Aug 06, 2021
TAVR Debris Deflector Doesn't Fly With FDA Advisory Panel TriGuard 3 met with skepticism in its bid for approval Aug 04, 2021
Higher Prices, No Difference in Resource Use at NCI Cancer Centers Negotiated facility prices, not surgeon costs, appeared to drive the differences Aug 03, 2021
Urine Tests Before Surgery Blasted as Mostly Unnecessary Abundance of caution is way overdone, researchers suggest Aug 02, 2021
Ethics Consult: Is Oil Tycoon's Billboard for Liver Donor Ethical? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Jul 30, 2021
Improved Survival in Metastatic Uterine Cancer With Hysterectomy Plus Chemo Data extend surgery's advantage from locally advanced to distant metastases Jul 29, 2021
Call in the T-Cell Cavalry to Fight COVID in the Immunocompromised Preliminary research suggests immunotherapy could play role in protecting vaccine non-responders Jul 29, 2021
Surgeon Accused of Trying to Blackmail Nurse Practitioner for Sex North Carolina doctor fired after admitting to accuser's harassment complaints, lawsuit says Jul 28, 2021
More Data Support Active Surveillance for Small Renal Masses Most patients avoided surgery with no metastasis, better focus on aggressive disease Jul 27, 2021
Shingrix OK'd for Immunocompromised Adults CDC's vaccine committee currently discussing vaccine for this population, manufacturer says Jul 26, 2021
Surprising Tradeoffs of Valve-in-Valve TAVR vs Redo Surgery Observational study suggests excess readmissions with less invasive procedure Jul 23, 2021
Watchman FLX Stays on Track for Stroke Prevention Next-generation LAA occluder maintains good results at 2 years Jul 22, 2021
Gender Bias in the OR Is a Hazard to Patient Safety Conflict and toxicity can make teams more prone to errors Jul 21, 2021
Does COAPT Change the Need to Try Foundational HF Drugs in Functional MR? Current GDMT titration approach under fire during TVT debate Jul 21, 2021
After Some Early Successes for Bicuspid TAVR, a Randomized Trial May Be Unlikely Are observational data on highly selected patients good enough? Jul 21, 2021
FDA Breaks New Ground With Transplant Drug Approval No prospective trial offered or required Jul 19, 2021
FDA Panel Nearly Unanimous on Liver Transplant Perfusion Device Thumbs up on safety and efficacy Jul 15, 2021
Scarring on an Otherwise Normal Heart: Reassuring Data Emerge Phenomenon tied to very low burden of major arrhythmic events Jul 14, 2021
Trouble Looms With Pacemakers After Aortic Valve Replacement Permanent pacemaker implantation of clinical significance in cohort study Jul 13, 2021
Vascular Function: Another Benefit of Bariatric Surgery Macrovascular, microvascular gains accrue for nearly all patient groups Jul 12, 2021
Academic Cardiologists Singled Out for Gender Equality Problem Women still poorly represented, paid in procedural internal medicine specialties Jul 12, 2021
