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RESEARCH SHOWS WOMEN LESS LIKELY TO SURVIVE WITH A MALE SURGEON A fascinating large scale review of the outcomes of over 1.3 million surgeries conducted by almost 3000 surgeons in Canada has shown female patients operated on by male surgeon have a statistically significant increased change of adverse postoperative outcomes. Women operated on by men were found to have a 32% higher risk of dying and a 15% higher chance of a complication following surgery. Where a surgeon was female and the patient male, there was no increase in the level of adverse outcomes. Nor was there any marked increase where both the patient and the surgeon were of the same sex. The researchers believe further work is required to work
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out why this should be the case. Ref: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.6339
DR. OZ DROPPED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AS HE ENTERS POLITICS Dr. Memhet Oz, the heart surgeon best known for his appearances with Oprah Winfrey and The Dr. Oz Show, has been downgraded by Columbia University where he was previously director of surgery and director of integrated medicine at their Irving Medical Centre. The move follows on from Dr. Oz’s move into politics as he seeks the Republican nomination for US Senator for Pennsylvania. He is said to be a close personal friend of Donald Trump. Dr. Oz has been described as using his TV platform to push medicines ranging from ineffective diet pills to discredited Covid treatments and appeared before
the Senate in 2014 as a result. In 2011 the US Food and Drug Administration responded that a report on his TV show claiming apple juice had dangerously high levels of arsenic was, ‘misleading and irresponsible.’
WALMART RECALLS AROMATHERAPY ROOM SPRAYS AS BACTERIA LEADS TO DEATHS US retailer Walmart has recalled Better Homes and Gardens aromatherapy room sprays after bacteria cause the deaths of two people and left several others in hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a 5-year-old boy in Georgia and a 53-year-old woman in Kansas died from a rare tropical disease that was linked to an imported aromatherapy spray product sold at Walmart stores.
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