Topic: American College Of Surgeons
Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women...
Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the...
Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes than women who...
Smoking greatly increases the risk of breast abscesses, painful inflammatory lesions that are difficult to treat and tend to recur at rates as high...
Our colleagues over at the Law Blog recently wrote about the notion of a tax write-off for plaintiffs' attorneys for the out-of-pocket costs - such...
Current measures of how well hospitals control post-operative infections don't reflect actual results, a new study contends.. . The authors of the...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Preparing as much as possible for surgery would seem to make sense, but in one case -- using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to plan breast cancer surgery - it may do more harm than good, according to a new study ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African-Americans diagnosed before 2000 with a very rare kind of tumor found in or near the digestive tract were less likely than other races to receive surgery, and even when they did have surgery, they were more likely ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In US counties with the most segregation, an increase in the African-American or Hispanic population is associated with a decrease in the availability and use of surgical services and an increase in the number of emergency room
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The increased risk of cancer in obese women appears to be reduced by weight-loss or "bariatric" surgery, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.Severely "obese women are at incredible risk for
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