News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 13, 2014
Major finding: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a probable case of female-to-female HIV transmission.Data source: A s...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 12, 2014
Major finding: Compared to a staged surgery, simultaneously resecting colorectal cancer and liver metastases saved about 6 days of hospital stay, ...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 12, 2014
Major finding: The PD-1 receptor inhibitor nivolumab effected sustained response in 31% of those who took it for advanced melanoma. Data source: A...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 12, 2014
Major finding: Fluorescent cholangiography identified 100% of relevant anatomy during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, while costing less than standa...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 11, 2014
Major finding: A high posthepatectomy bilirubin level was associated with an 8-fold increase in the risk of postoperative complications and 90-day...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 11, 2014
Major finding: Readmission after pancreatectomy dropped from 24% to 11% after implementation of a multifaceted effort to reduce infections and imp...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 10, 2014
Major finding: Intraoperative ultrasound changed surgical strategy in 43% of patients undergoing liver resections of colorectal cancer metastases....
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 7, 2014
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 3, 2014
Major finding: When high-volume surgeons transferred to low-volume institutions, these surgeons improved perioperative complications, mortality, a...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: March 3, 2014
Major finding: Severe complications occurred in significantly more Whipple patients who had a pancreaticogastrostomy reconstruction than a pancrea...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 27, 2014
Major finding: Nearly 20% of stillbirths that occurred over an 8-year period were associated with obesity. Data source: Population-based data with...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 27, 2014
Major finding: For monoamniotic twins, the risks of intrauterine death and neonatal complications are both about 3% at 33 weeks’ gestation, ...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 21, 2014
Major finding: Chronic preoperative renal insufficiency confers a fourfold increase in the risk of major complications after hepatic resection, al...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 21, 2014
Major finding: Total neonatal mortality in midwife-assisted hospital births was 0.32/1,000. For a midwife-attended home birth, that number was 1.2...
News
- Author:
- Michele G. Sullivan
Publish date: February 14, 2014
Major finding: There were no cases of HIV transmission to infants among women who maintained a well-suppressed viral load between pregnancies, com...
