Jeannette Y. Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP

Local anesthetic wound infiltration is associated with postoperative pain scores comparable to those obtained through epidural analgesia.

Patients who undergo open and minimally-invasive colon surgery on Monday have significantly shorter lengths of hospital stay compared to operations performed on any other day of the week.

After examining 24 clinical studies, researchers conclude transverse incisions are less painful for patients - and required significantly less narcotic analgesics - compared to midline incisions.

Following the American Medical Association's formal recognition of obesity as a disease, Boston University researchers attempted to identify better ways to determine health status in obese patients.

Alcohol use with maraviroc administration increases blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) by 12 percent, but a lower BAC was found in patients taking ritonavir and efavirenz.

UCLA researchers determine the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring system effectively moves patients in the most critical condition to the top of the liver recipient list.

Researchers have studied the effects of hormone therapy on the lipid profiles of postmenopausal women.

New research findings underscore the need for improved medical and psychiatric care coordination for HIV patients.

The lifestyle medicine discipline offers the potential to strengthen patients' capacities to make healthier choices and foster good health.

A recent study found each missed physician visit increases an HIV patient's risk of death by 12 percent.

Researchers determine that recurrent miscarriage risk is elevated in women who carry the ACE I/D polymorphism.

When alcohol consumption is a concern, it's better to prescribe antiretroviral therapy in HIV patients than to withhold it, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital of Berne in Switzerland.

Christopher Kaeding, MD, Director of Sports Medicine at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center, recently live-streamed surgery as he repaired a 47-year-old woman's anterior cruciate ligament.

Using nutritional supplement mixtures consisting of arginine, glutamine, and beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) may speed up wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers.

A team of investigators have revisited ultrasound as a tool for providing more targeted essential tremor treatment.

Researchers discover patients with cerebral cavernous malformations who receive intensive evaluation pre-surgical evaluation are significantly more likely to be free of seizure postoperatively.

Reviews of crofelemer showed the drug's clinical utility in diarrhea associated with HIV, but clinical trials comparing it to other antidiarrheals are still needed.

Researchers at Duke University discover that hearts from donors with histories of cardiac arrest can be successfully transplanted, sometimes with excellent outcomes.

Researchers have determined the differences in healthcare resource use and costs between total knee replacement patients with and without muscle atrophy/weakness.

A research team explains the relationship between economic indicators and patients' propensity to undergo cosmetic procedures.

Though many patients indicate side effects as the reason they stop taking their prescribed statins, clinical trials have not documented high discontinuation rates due to adverse drug reactions.

A group of researchers have determined that thyroid cancer is an over-diagnosed disease.

While neither surgeons nor patients ever want to face post-surgical complications, a new study has revealed that certain types of payments to hospitals reward suboptimal care and penalize quality care.

Researchers have published their findings from the NIH-sponsored Look AHEAD clinical trial in three areas relevant to type 2 diabetes management.

Patients who are unaware that they have diabetes may have less contact with healthcare professionals, receive less aggressive treatment, or have a poorer understanding of the disease and the actions required to treat it - all of which may be responsible for their increased risk of morbidity and mortality.

Surgeons and hospitals are concerned about perioperative risk reduction for obstructive sleep apnea patients.

In clinical testing, the MD-Logic Artificial Pancreas system significantly improved overnight glucose control and decreased the duration of hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes patients.

The delivery of fecal microflora from "normal" stool from healthy donors by jejunal tube or during colonic endoscopy to promote microflora growth in the recipient is becoming more common.

Researchers have identified gene expression patterns and DNA changes that can also be used as tumor markers if present in tumor biopsies.

New research indicates that adenotonsillectomy helps children with sleep apnea sleep better, reduces restlessness and impulsivity, and improves their quality of life