General Surgery News

• Vaginal Pessaries Effective for Many Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse For many women, especially seniors experiencing pelvic organ prolapse, vaginal pessaries may be an effective long-term treatment, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 24, 2021
• NPWT May Not Improve Complication Rate After Gynecologic Surgery Use of prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) may not be appropriate in surgical cases where women undergo a laparotomy for presumed gynecologic malignancy, according to recent research.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Miami Anesthesiologist Charged in Hate Crime The physician's attorney said the allegations are not true.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• More Published Data on 'Game-Changer' Drug for Obesity Subcutaneous semaglutide once-weekly together with a low-calorie diet and intensive behavioral therapy leads to over 10% greater weight loss than placebo, shows the STEP 3 study published in JAMA.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Docs Become Dog Walkers After COVID-19 Work Loss Many physicians have lost their jobs or have little work during the pandemic and are resorting to a bizarre array of side gigs or outright career overhauls.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Tree Resin Compound Defeats Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Lab Tests A tree resin extract may prove effective in treating drug-resistant bacterial infections, according to early lab studies.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2021
• Tiger Woods 'Lucky to Be Alive' After Los Angeles Wreck Professional golfer Tiger Woods has multiple injuries to his legs after a Tuesday morning one-vehicle wreck in Los Angeles, his agent, Mark Steinberg, told Golf Digest.
  WebMD Health News, February 23, 2021
• Sensitivity to Sweets Tied to Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery 'We showed, for the first time, that preoperative sweet [taste] intensity predicts [greater] weight loss after surgery,' but surprisingly, hedonic hunger foretold the opposite, said a study author.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2021
• Diverticulitis: A New Standard of Care? Clinicians may opt for a fluoroquinolone-sparing approach by using amoxicillin-clavulanate, with no drop in efficacy, new data indicate.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Bronchial Thermoplasty Benefits for Uncontrolled Asthma Sustained at 10 Years The benefits of bronchial thermoplasty in patients with uncontrolled asthma are sustained over at least 10 years, according to results of the BT10+ study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2021
• Organ Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving COVID-Infected Lungs Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of COVID-19 in the US in which the virus was transmitted via an organ transplant.
  Kaiser Health News, February 22, 2021
• How Do You Run a Hospital With No Running Water? With grit and ingenuity, Texas medical centers find. '2020 taught us to be agile as things change and to align our goals across different medical teams,' one physician said.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• How to Spot a Fake N95 Counterfeit N95 airborne particle-filtering face masks are on the rise, but recognizing phonies can be easy using a few simple steps.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Radial-to-Backup Artery Switch Adds Limited Risk in ACS PCI Findings from a MATRIX substudy are reassuring for radial operators, but experts caution on the need for proficiency in femoral artery access.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2021
• Alert Medtronic Recalls Valiant Navion Thoracic Stent Grafts The global recall follows reports of stent fractures -- including one death -- among patients who participated in a company-sponsored trial.
  News Alerts, February 17, 2021
• Cancer Warning Labels on Alcohol: Calls for Congress to Act The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and seven other organizations are lobbying Congress to add a warning about cancer risk to all alcoholic beverages.
  Medscape Medical News, February 17, 2021
• GUCS 2021 'Attractive' Option for Early Metastatic Seminoma For early-stage seminoma that metastasizes to one or two retroperitoneal lymph nodes, surgical excision is an "attractive" alternative, according to an investigator from the phase 2 SEMS trial.
  Medscape Medical News, February 17, 2021
• Robotic Total Gastrectomy Pricier, but Has Advantages Over Laparoscopic Approach In experienced hands, robotic total gastrectomy has advantages for the surgeon and patient, but is costlier than traditional laparoscopic surgery, according to a study from China.
  Reuters Health Information, February 15, 2021
• Docs Earn Millions for Sketchy Referrals; Now What? As government scrutiny of hospital-physician transactions has heightened in recent years, more instances of improper payments have come to light.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Breast Cancer Surgeries Deemed 'Low Value' Continue, Increase Two of four breast cancer procedures that have no meaningful clinical benefit have increased in use, rather than decreased, with use varying widely across different hospitals.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021