Day: March 24, 2011

During a radical surgery to treat a rare bone cancer, surgeons at University of California (UC) San Diego Health System and Moores Cancer Center removed 50% of a patient’s pelvis. Instead of amputating the connected leg, the surgical team, comprised…

Clinicians have an ethical imperative to share important decisions with patients, and patients have a right to be equal participants in their care, according to a group of experts. In December 2010, 58 people from 18 countries attended a Salzburg…

Patients admitted to a hospital with major trauma and treated with the steroid hydrocortisone were less likely to be diagnosed with hospital-acquired pneumonia than patients who received placebo, according to a study in JAMA. Antoine Roquilly, MD, University of Nantes,…