Infographic: How Physicians React to Their Tax Bill Infographic: How Physicians React to Their Tax Bill
Physicians reveal their attitudes about what they pay in taxes, the job their paid preparer does, and how Congress treats American taxpayers.Medscape
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - August 18, 2023 Category: Surgery Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Article Source Type: news

South Africa: Surgeries Delayed At Charlotte Maxeke As Key Machine Decommissioned Before Replacements Are Ready
[spotlight] What appears to be a poorly planned decommissioning process of a specialised angiogram machine has led to a three-month delay before patients will be able to access potentially life-saving vascular imaging and surgery at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 18, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news

Mesh bowel patients call for publication of Bristol Spire Hospital report
People whose lives were damaged by surgery say they are still waiting to see an official report.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

All GP surgeries to be given upgraded digital phone systems as part of £240million scheme aimed at ending the 8am scramble for appointments
Callers will no longer be met with frustrating engaged tones and be forced to repeatedly redial when trying to get through to the surgery. Instead, they will be added to a queue.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Young people wait four times longer for liver transplants
The way organs are prioritised means those aged 26-40 wait four times longer for surgery than the over-60s.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Older Surgical Procedure for Pelvic Prolapse Repair Prevails in Randomized Trial
(MedPage Today) -- A long-time surgical standard for pelvic organ prolapse repair prevailed in a comparison against a newer technique that currently predominates in some parts of the world. Sacrospinous hysteropexy failed to meet noninferiority...
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - August 17, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news

Type 2 Diabetes May Raise Your Risk of Endometrial Cancer
A new study found that women with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of dying from endometrial cancer. This is important because gynecological cancers can be often be successfully treated, including stage I endometrial cancer, via surgery.
Source: WebMD Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Low Recurrence Seen With Omission of Radiation in Some Breast Cancer Cases
THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 -- The incidence of local recurrence at five years is low among women aged at least 55 years with T1N0, grade 1 or 2, luminal A breast cancer who were treated with breast-conserving surgery and endocrine therapy without...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 17, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

10 Thursday AM Reads
My morning train WFH reads: • What recession? This summer’s economy is defying the odds. Americans still have jobs and are continuing to spend — on plastic surgery, motorcycles and cruises — leading many to revise their doom-and-gloom forecasts. (Washington Post) • The Anti-California: How Montana…#wfh #montana #atlantic #venture #edwardstanley #matiasøvrum #nt #taxing #norwegians #cambridgecore
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Skipping Radiation May Be Safe for Some With Early Breast Cancer
THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 -- Many women with early breast cancer undergo breast-conserving surgery along with radiation to kill any errant cancer cells, but some may be able to safely skip radiation, new research suggests. “If the tumors are...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Esketamine for Sedation Among Patients Undergoing GI Endoscopy Esketamine for Sedation Among Patients Undergoing GI Endoscopy
This review aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of esketamine as an adjunct to propofol for sedation during endoscopic procedures.BMC Anesthesiology
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - August 17, 2023 Category: Surgery Tags: Gastroenterology Journal Article Source Type: news

Healing Osteomyelitis After Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture Healing Osteomyelitis After Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture
A 62-year-old man ' s late postoperative infection after hip fracture surgery developed into osteomyelitis, but over a 2-year period he was able to achieve fracture union and decreased bacterial burden.Grand Rounds From HSS: Management of Complex Cases
Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines - August 16, 2023 Category: Radiology Tags: Orthopaedics Clinical Case Source Type: news

A Pig ’ s Kidney Has Been Working in a Human Body for a Month, a Medical Milestone
(NEW YORK) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the ki...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Neergard / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news

Allegheny Health Network, AHN Saint Vincent Hospital recognized for best-in-market overall hospital care by CareChex
AGH named the No. 1 hospital in Pennsylvania for Major Cardiac Surgery, West Penn Hospital is No. 1 in Bariatric Surgery, among other top clinical rankings PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has been rated the No. 1 health network in...
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - August 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: AWD Source Type: news

Pig Kidneys Performing Effectively in Two Brain-Dead Patients
In two experiments, researchers implanted the organs into brain-dead patients for extended periods, raising hopes for a new supply of donor organs.
Source: NYT Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-health your-feed-healthcare Kidneys Genetic Engineering Surgery and Surgeons Dialysis Immune System Transplants Pigs Research Source Type: news

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