General Surgery News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss? With nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical options available for obesity, clinicians are being called upon to make decisions about how to best help their patients lose weight and keep it off.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Remimazolam-Flumazenil Combo Cuts Extubation Time in TAVI Compared with sevoflurane, a combination of remimazolam and flumazenil reduced the time to extubation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation by approximately 7 minutes, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Eli Lilly's Obesity Drug Gets Medicare Coverage for Sleep Apnea Eli Lilly's obesity drug Zepbound can now be covered by government-backed Medicare insurance plans for use in sleep apnea, broadening access to the blockbuster weight-loss...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• Study Identifies Risk Potential for Thousands Of Mutations Of a Cancer Gene Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure worried patients about their cancer risk or guide...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• Personalized Care Can Ease Preoperative Anesthesia Anxiety A brief, tailored psychoeducational intervention reduced anesthesia-related anxiety in patients seeking support prior to surgery, offering a safe and effective alternative to anxiolytic premedication, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Merkel Cell Less Common, With Higher Mortality Than Melanoma A study analyzing over 660,000 skin cancer cases highlighted significant risk factors. incidence and mortality for MCC and melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• GLP-1s: The Key to Meet BMI Cutoff for Orthopedic Surgery? Surgeons are collaborating with obesity medicine physicians, turning to GLP-1s to help high BMI patients qualify for surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Kidney Transplant Program Drops Patient Notification Rule The CMS finalized its kidney transplant program designed to increase kidney transplants but dropped a rule requiring centers notify patients of kidneys declined on their behalf.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• ESG Alone Offers Lasting Benefits for Obesity Comorbidities Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty proved effective as a standalone procedure, improving obesity-related comorbidities and leading to sustained weight loss over 5 years.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2025
• AI Colonoscopy's 'Intelligent' Module Ups Polyp Detection Results from a British trial add to the growing body of evidence supporting the use of AI-aided colonoscopy to increase premalignant colorectal polyp detection.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2025
• ESG Plus Lifestyle Intervention Shows Promise for MASH Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty combined with lifestyle changes was more effective for weight loss in patients with MASH and obesity than lifestyle changes alone.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2025
• TNF Inhibitors Ward Off Fracture in Axial Spondyloarthritis TNF inhibitors offered greater protection against fractures than NSAIDs in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Vedolizumab Reduces Postoperative Crohn’s Disease Recurrence Vedolizumab prevented the postoperative recurrence of Crohn’s disease and should be considered a prophylactic treatment in patients with at least one risk factor for recurrence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 26, 2024
• Home-Based Exercise May Aid Post-Lung Surgery Recovery A home-based exercise program boosted exercise capacity and quality of life among patients after lung cancer surgery but did not improve self-reported physical function, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 24, 2024
• Clinicians More Likely to Flag Black Kids’ Injuries as Abuse Clinicians were more likely to suspect that traumatic injuries in Black children and adolescents were the result of child abuse compared with when they evaluated White children, a new analysis shows.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• Is Whole Blood Making a Comeback to Civilian Practice? Trials in Europe are determining the feasibility of reintroducing whole blood to emergency services after decades of using blood components.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• CT Timing Affects Injury Assessment in Pediatric Trauma Positive CT scans for blunt abdominal trauma in children were linked to severe injuries, whereas negative scans did not warrant trauma center transfers.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024