The first randomized comparison of gastric bypass and duodenal switch surgery, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows greater weight loss and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors with duodenal switch, but at the expens ...
Continue Reading...Surgical Tools, Inc. will be attending the MEDICA World Forum for Medicine International Trade Fair with Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany on November 16-19, 2011. Please come visit us. We'd love to see you! ...
Continue Reading...By Jennifer Corbett Dooren and Anjali Athavaley (Dow Jones)--The Food and Drug Administration is proposing tougher regulations for surgical mesh products when used inserted through the vagina to treat a condition called pelvic org ...
Continue Reading...By Roni Caryn Rabin The odds that a Medicare patient will die after undergoing one of eight high-risk operations have fallen sharply, an analysis of medical records has found. Fewer hospitals are performing these procedures, and the hosp ...
Continue Reading...by Christina Frangou Vancouver, British Columbia—Mayo Clinic researchers are calling for all young patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) to undergo preoperative testing for Lynch syndrome as the results can significantly alter surgic ...
Continue Reading...By Christina Frangou “SCIP adherence was neither associated with a lower surgical site infection rate at the patient level, nor with lower hospital surgical site infection rates,” said lead author Mary Hawn, MD, MPH, associate professo ...
Continue Reading...by Christina Frangou Washington—For residents who are dreading next year’s American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE), there’s a new free study tool that’s much lighter to carry around than a textbook. Apple Inc., recent ...
Continue Reading...Electromagnetic radiation generated by cell phones is "possibly carcinogenic" to humans, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer concludes. According to a WHO press release, an international working group of 31 scientists ...
Continue Reading...by Gabriel Miller National Harbor, Md.—When versions of the Sunshine Act were originally passed in states like Massachusetts and Vermont in 2008 and 2009, there were running jokes in the exhibition halls of surgical society meetings arou ...
Continue Reading...Two thirds of patients who experience a myocardial infarction during or shortly after noncardiac surgery do not have ischemic symptoms, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study. Researchers followed a cohort of some 8350 ...
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