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Surgery offers the best chance of a cure for patients with early cancer and is fundamental to cancer management, but it does not receive enough political and financial recognition, warns a European expert. In addition,
Actively offering an influenza (flu) vaccination to children having surgery and general anesthesia increased the number of patients vaccinated by 3,500% at Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2021
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed a topical drug that regenerates and restores the function of erectile nerves damaged by radical prostatectomy, the most common treatment for localized prostate cancer. The drug
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Both a Gracz-type surgical arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and an Ellipsys percutaneous AVF show high technical success and secondary patency rates at the proximal forearm in patients needing hemodialysis access, according
(Reuters Health) – Total knee replacement surgery can be a cost-effective procedure for patients with severe obesity and osteoarthritis, even when they also have comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes, a new
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Emergency surgery patients cared for by early-career “acute-care” surgeons have similar mortality rates as patients with more senior surgeons but are more likely to need to go back to the
When she was 12, Jennifer Tripucka was so embarrassed by the scar that runs from the middle of her stomach to the top of her chest that she asked her mother to buy gel to
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Commercial air travel in the U.S. seems to be increasing again, reaching the levels last seen in March 2020, according to
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager
There’s a price to pay for a failed radial artery attempt in invasively managed patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but it may not be as high as previously thought, a new MATRIX substudy suggests.