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Investigators say bladder-preserving treatment should be offered to all patients, not just poor surgical candidates.

The investigators say acute appendicitis is likely an early warning sign for colon cancer, not a cause of it. The study covered was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

A large, propensity-matched review found that survival was better with fewer complications when women with advanced ovarian cancer underwent minimally invasive debulking surgery instead of open surgery.

Failure to consider weight loss that patients with colorectal cancer may experience prior to diagnosis may cause the contribution that weight plays in cancer risk to be underestimated, a new study suggests.

Long the gold standard students used to judge medical schools, the US News & World Report rankings recently lost some influence. Doctors in training offer options for weighing a schools value.

For some physicians, making work-life balance a priority and pursuing activities they love have redrawn the map of where to train and practice.

Unfilled emergency medicine (EM) residency slots spur appeal for limits. Residents say the rise of corporate EM discourages students from choosing the specialty.

Even though we may not recommend use of ChatGPT...to our patients, some are still going to use [it]. [We need to be] better equipped to advise our patients who obtain information from such a source.

There has been little improvement in addressing the shortage of pediatric rheumatologists over the past two decades, boding poorly for future patient care.

With the emotional rollercoaster of Match Day over, successful matchers plot their medical training; others recover from a selection process that resulted in highs and lows for some specialties.