Jeannette Y. Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP

Though dialysis patients have a greater risk for thyroid disorders due to uremic toxins, protein malnutrition, and inflammation, the prevalence of those disorders and their impact on cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality have not been investigated.

A new study estimates the costs of treating atrial fibrillation as well as the comparative costs of treating it with warfarin and newer oral anticoagulants.

Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) is a distressing and overwhelming affliction that eludes diagnosis, and as time marches on, it is less likely to be remediable.

Researchers estimate 43% of the roughly 3.1 million kidney stone episodes among US diabetics are related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), while another 680,000 cases may result from poor glycemic control.

Peer wellness coaches benefit from diabetes self-management support (DSMS) just as much as the patients they coach.

Medical advances related to the diagnosis and management of cystic fibrosis (CF) have allowed CF patients to live considerably longer. But with that greater life expectancy, new complications have emerged.

While insulin pumps immensely improve glycemic control, most type 1 diabetes patients who use them experience problems from time to time, and those mistakes or malfunctions can threaten their health.

While some patients diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) undergo a condition metamorphism to Graves' disease (GD), the cause of the autoimmune syndrome switch is unknown.

Although only one in 10 Americans with eating disorders pursue care, US endocrinologists see many patients who suffer the long-term consequences of the conditions.

Early repair of complete hamstring tendon rupture offers good-to-excellent recovery of hamstring strength and endurance in professional football players, although the injury may be a marker of elite-level physical deterioration.

As many surgeons know, acute surgical wounds occasionally heal slowly as a result of poor local blood supply, infection, blood vessel damage, or a combination of factors. Fortunately, new research suggests hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can speed healing in those difficult wounds.

An absence of symptoms does not indicate benign behavior in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs), as nearly one-third of patients with incidental tumors present with advanced disease.

In light of the increasingly intense competition in youth sports, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) has issued a new position statement that is of interest to healthcare providers, especially surgeons.

Two pediatric surgeons describe a stepwise approach to treating children whose abdominal pain goes beyond a minor problem.

While numerous patients require psychiatric interventions before and immediately after surgery, a new report addresses a different psychological process that can occur months or even years later: major quality-of-life (QOL) perception changes related to dramatic weight loss.

In a new paper, Kyle J. Chepla, MD, and Arun K. Gosain, MD, evaluated the management of orofacial cleft in the wake of the 2010 Maintenance of Certification in Plastic Surgery article on the subject.

In 10 randomized controlled studies, patients who chewed gum after elective colorectal surgery had shorter lengths of hospital stay and were less likely to experience complications.

A group of researchers has assessed the health and economic costs and benefits of minimally invasive procedures for the management of varicose veins.

In an attempt to close the knowledge gap on anal abscess and fistula, 2 surgeons have published a comprehensive review on those topics.

To analyze the risk factors for colectomy and post-operative mortality among Clostridium difficile colitis (CDC) patients, a group of surgeons retrospectively reviewed CDC trends between 2001 and 2010.

After identifying a research gap in work status before and after joint replacement, researchers from the Netherlands looked for data describing work status and time to return to work among patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

A comprehensive review of reanimation surgery describes interventions to restore facial movement in each part of the face.

The use of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery has become so widespread that some surgeons are concerned those in training have insufficient exposure to the open procedures it has replaced.

Examining evidence on vitamin D deficiency in elderly and young populations expands the hormone's clinical knowledge base.

Two studies raise questions about identity change from deep brain stimulation (DBS) that many clinicians have not considered.

Researchers at Tufts University have published a timely review of the cranberry's phytochemical composition with emphasis on urinary and cardiovascular heath.

Patients who have experienced hemorrhage and sepsis seem to gain the most benefit from damage control procedures if the surgeon uses careful patient selection.

A researcher from the University of Central Florida Medical School addresses many concerns and misperceptions of fructose-containing sugars.

A diagnosis of obesity-related hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (OrHH) does not reduce the efficacy of bariatric surgery in men.

Though automated clinical reminders sent to physicians have produced notable results in diabetes management, a Mayo Clinic study found they do not improve weight loss in overweight and obese patients.