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New research released last week suggests that sex matters when it comes to surgery. Researchers examined the sex of the surgeon and the sex of the patient in over a million surgeries and found that female patients with male doctors fared slightly worse than any other combination. The reason for the disparity likely comes down to communication and relationship-building.

Previously, children with microtia have suffered prolonged postoperative pain because cartilage for ear reconstruction is harvested from one of their ribs.

A Yale study published in the journal Bioactive Materials found that the medication lacosamide acts as a highly effective, dual-purpose treatment that relieves joint pain and reverses cartilage damage in osteoarthritis

Particulated juvenile articular cartilage (PJAC) allograft has emerged as a single-stage biologic option for treatment of focal full-thickness cartilage defects, including isolated trochlear lesions.

These cryopreserved osteochondral allografts allow the surgeon to have an off-the-shelf option for when they are dealing with these high-level cartilage lesions of the patellofemoral joint

The CartiHeal Agili-C cartilage repair implant had continued improvement in outcomes at 5 years compared with debridement or microfracture, according to results presented here.

An artificial intelligence-based tool may help physicians determine which newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients are most likely to benefit from specific therapies, including immunotherapy and stem cell transplantation.

In a breakthrough poised to reshape cancer treatment, Houston Methodist has developed the first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine designed to prevent recurrence of osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive type of bone cancer.

A research team from the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed a novel combination therapy that significantly improves treatment outcomes and survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3 g...

Compared to conventional imaging techniques, prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging provides superior detection of bone metastases in prostate cancer patients, a critical indicator of a patient`s long-term survival.

For years, treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukemia-an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow-has required injections administered in a clinic for five to seven consecutive days each month, in addition to an oral pill.