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Surgery shows no survival, morbidity benefit for mild hyperparathyroidism
A decade-long randomized trial shows nearly identical outcomes in most measures in patients with mild parathyroid tumors who did and did not...
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Inadequate pain relief in OA, high opioid use before TKA
Rates of inadequate pain relief in knee and hip OA, and high opioid use before total knee replacement surgery were reported in separate studies at...
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Med school to pay $1.2 million to students in refunds and debt cancellation in FTC settlement
The school misrepresented the residency match rate as “the same” as American medical schools, according to the complaint.
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Bariatric surgery cuts cardiovascular events, even in seniors
In persons with obesity, even those aged 65-75 years of age, bariatric surgery can reduce long-term cardiovascular events, such as heart failure,...
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Who doesn’t text in 2022? Most state Medicaid programs
As states prepare for the end of the COVID public health emergency, they are making plans to reevaluate each Medicaid enrollee’s eligibility. They...
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More medical schools build training in transgender care
Students and faculty identify gaps, such as a severe shortage of transgender instructors, and expand goals for training.
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University of Washington, Harvard ranked top medical schools for second year
If you’re looking for a school with significant minority representation, Howard University, in Washington, ranked highest.
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Doc fails to order crucial tests; paralyzed patient wins $17 million; more
The neurosurgeon/spine specialist didn’t order a presurgical MRI of his patient’s thoracic spine. Typically, such a scan would have been used to...
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TAVI device shows less deterioration than surgery 5 years out
A transcatheter aortic valve – CoreValve Evolut – is associated for first time with less deterioration than surgical repair at 5 years.
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Early meniscal surgery on par with active rehab in under 40s
Early meniscal surgery in people aged under 40 years was not better than an exercise and education program in the randomized controlled DREAM...
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Surgeons in China ‘are the executioners,’ procuring organs before brain death
An analysis of articles published in obscure Chinese language journals provides damning evidence of decades of widespread organ harvesting from...