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Opioids after lung cancer surgery may up all-cause mortality risk
“New long-term opioid use may be associated with poor long-term survival outcomes, especially in potent opioid users.”
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Living-donor liver transplants linked with substantial survival benefit
The benefit was significant even at Model for End-Stage Liver Disease–Sodium scores as low as 11.
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Increased risk of dyspareunia following cesarean section
“Caesarean section may not help protect against sexual dysfunction, as previously thought, where sex-related pain was higher among women who gave...
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Multibiomarker risk score predicts complex revascularization
The findings provide insight into the relationship between cardiovascular biomarkers, coronary anatomical complexity, and incident clinical events...
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Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks improve fracture pain
Because hip fractures commonly affect older populations and those who are frail, treatment of the substantial pain that can occur perioperatively...
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Weight-loss surgery has a big effect on marriage
The person who had surgery may feel unsupported in the new journey if the partner keeps advocating for unhealthy habits. And the person who didn’t...
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Power-morcellation hysterectomies declined and most performed with no containment bag
Despite a possible overestimation of risk by the 2014 FDA safety warning about power morcellators, there has been an almost total nationwide...
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Should patients undergoing surgical treatment for cervical lesions also receive an HPV vaccination?
“HPV vaccination might reduce the risk of recurrence of CIN, in particular when related to HPV16 or HPV18, in women treated with local excision...
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Six specialties attracting the highest private equity acquisitions
“These specialties offer private equity firms diverse revenue streams. You have a mix of commercially insured individuals with Medicare insurance...
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Two distinct phenotypes of COVID-related myocarditis emerge
A new study points to significantly different clinical presentations, immunologic profiles, and outcomes.
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‘Stunning variation’ in CV test, procedure costs revealed at top U.S. hospitals
Should an echocardiogram cost $200 or $2,500? Such costs varied more than tenfold in some cases, not only among hospitals but also at individual...