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Most adult smokers who undergo weight-loss surgery quit in the month before their operation. But the majority relapse and, within seven years, smoking rates climb to pre-surgery levels. Credit: UPMC Although 1 in 7 adults smoke cigarettes the year prior to undergoing weight-loss surgery, nearly all successfully quit at least …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The number of elderly Americans hospitalized for sepsis has surged in recent years, placing a significant financial strain on the nation’s health care providers, according to a new federal study led by an Emory University critical care specialist Timothy Buchman, MD, PhD, FCCM. The study is …

Colon Cancer in Patients Under 25 Years Old: A Different Disease? Credit: American College of Surgeons Colon cancer is more likely to be lethal in children and young adults than middle-aged adults. In a single-institution study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex., found that …

A new study led by Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, shows Long-Term Survival Benefit for Certain Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer. Credit: Yale Cancer Center According to the results of a large, global study led by Yale Cancer Center researchers, even a tiny amount of a biomarker known as PD-L1 (programmed …

A pilot program introducing bundled payments for hip and knee replacement (HKR) in Medicare patients hasn’t led hospitals to “cherry-pick” healthier patients at lower risk of complications, reports a study in the February 19, 2020 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. In the first year of the …

A blood clot forming in the carotid artery. Credit: copyright American Heart Association New research confirms that the lower 0.25mg/kg dose of the clot-busting agent tenecteplase is appropriate for eligible stroke patients and can reduce the need for mechanical clot removal, according to late breaking science presented today at the …

In a study of patients with kidney failure and atrial fibrillation, racial/ethnic minorities experienced higher rates of stroke compared with non-Hispanic White patients, and they were less likely to fill prescriptions of stroke-preventive medications. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of JASN, indicate that equalizing the distribution of …

A new study, led by RCSI researchers, has found that patients receiving methadone treatment are most at risk of overdosing in the month following the end of methadone treatment and during the first four weeks of treatment. However, the study did not observe transfers between services as high risk periods, …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Patients with type 2 diabetes who have high levels of blood sugar are at greater risk of serious complications such as chronic kidney disease, heart disease and blindness. While lifestyle changes and medications can help some patients better control their blood sugar levels, type 2 diabetes …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine today, an international research collaboration led by Professor Tazeen H. Jafar from the Health Services and Systems Research Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, has found that a low-cost, multi-component intervention comprising home visits by community healthcare workers …