TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Wildfire smoke could interfere with the safety of surgeries, a new study warns. Inhaling the smoke could complicate the effects of anesthesia on surgical patients, and it also might hamper their recovery, researchers reported Aug. 6 in the journal Anesthesiology. “Wildfire smoke posesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2024 (HeathDay News) — A new antimicrobial compound can effectively clear “flesh-eating” bacterial infections in mice, a new study shows. The compound could be the first in an entirely new class of antibiotics, which could prove invaluable in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs, researchers said. “Bacterial infectionsContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Surgery is being overused to correct breastfeeding difficulties in infants, a new report says. A growing number of newborns are being diagnosed with ankyloglossia, also called “tongue-tie.” Tongue-tie restricts the tongue’s range of motion in a baby. An unusually short or tight bandContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast, even in the early stages, sometimes opt for a double mastectomy, due to the fear that the cancer will migrate to the other breast. But that decision may not offer any real benefitContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Abbott has warned diabetes patients that some of its continuous blood sugar monitoring systems may need to be replaced because of inaccurate readings. “Abbott has recently identified a small number of FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors that may provide incorrect high glucose readings, whichContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Brent Ruch, a collegiate basketball center, opted to have his left knee replaced at age 35 after struggling with pain for years. “Walking with a limp and living with a consistent aching pain was physically and emotionally difficult. I didn’t want to live likeContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many tweens and teens are filling prescriptions for opioids far in advance of surgeries unlikely to be associated with severe pain afterward, a new study says. Worse, a significant minority continue to fill those opioid prescriptions three to six months after surgery, aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Older women are more likely than older men to die following heart bypass surgery, possibly due to the quality of the hospitals where they undergo the procedure, a new study says. Women older than 65 are 26% more likely than men to undergoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Diabetes can make lumbar spinal fusion surgery much more likely to fail, a new study says. People with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to have their vertebrae fail to properly heal and fuse together, what surgeons call a non-union complication, accordingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Opioid addiction often starts with a prescription for post-surgery pain relief, and two new studies identify a handful of procedures that account for large shares of those prescriptions. The findings were published recently in two major medical journals. “Our findings suggest that surgicalContinue Reading