Breast Cancer Characteristics after Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: A Matched Comparison to Patients with Severe Obesity

• by Jawad Tome, Marian Khatib, Eran Nizri, Lilah Margalit Grigg, Lior Orbach, Guy Lahat, Shai Meron Eldar, Adam Abu-Abeid

• May 27, 2025

A Smarter Screen for Sleep Apnea Stimulation

A four-factor staging system stratified response rates from 90.9% to 37.5% in a retrospective cohort study, although the model showed only moderate discrimination (C statistic, 0.68) and requires external validation

• by Kathryn Wighton

• May 8, 2026

• 4 min

Obesity Not Associated With Worse Long-Term TAR Outcomes

A long-term cohort study found that obesity was not associated with worse patient-reported outcomes or higher reoperation rates following total ankle replacement in optimized surgical candidates.

• by Kathryn Wighton

• May 6, 2026

• 4 min

Venous Thromboembolism and Bleeding Risk in a Population with Obesity Hospitalized for Surgery and Receiving Enoxaparin for Thromboprophylaxis

• by Walter Ageno, Marc Carrier, Christine Stroh, Yasmina Djoudi, Mohamed Abdel-Moneim, Irfan Khan, Ekaterina Ponomareva

• May 18, 2026