Synopsis of the 2020 U.S. VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Adult Overweight and Obesity.

Introduction: In May of 2020, the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Department of Defense (DoD) approved a new joint clinical practice guideline for assessing and managing patients who have overweight and obesity.

Errors in laparoscopic surgery.

Laparoscopic surgery is the most significant advancement in the field of surgery over the past 15 years. This minimal access approach has been widely embraced and adopted to many common operations. Demonstrated benefits include decreased post-operative pain, shorter lengths of in-patient hospitalization, increased patient acceptance, and a more rapid return to gainful employment.

Parathyroid cancer, a continued diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma: report of four cases and review of the literature.

Parathyroid cancer presents a diagnostic challenge as a rare endocrine malignancy usually not recognized preoperatively and often not conclusively identified intraoperatively. We examined a cluster of parathyroid cancers treated at University of Louisville-affiliated hospitals during a 5-year interval. Clinical and histologic data from patient records at University Surgical Associates, the University of Louisville Hospital, Norton Hospital, and the Louisville Veterans Administration Medical Center in Louisville, KY were retrospectively reviewed.