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TUESDAY, March 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- It's highly likely that you'll undergo outpatient surgery one day, and there are several things you should know about such procedures, says the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Nearly 50 million outpatient surgeries are performed in the United States each year. "Complex procedures like total knee replacement, cardiology procedures and spine surgery used to be done almost exclusively in hospitals, but now we have the ability to do them in an outpatient setting, which can include ambulatory surgery centers or in the hospital," said ASA President Dr. Mary Dale Peterson. "These settings are less expensive and now reimbursed by Medicare. As a result, even more elderly patients are able to have outpatient surgery," Peterson said in a...

TUESDAY, March 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There is no cure for migraines -- a headache disorder that can cause sensory disturbances and nausea -- but several new treatments may help people with the debilitating condition, a neurologist says. "Ten new treatments for migraines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] over the past six years," said Dr. Stephen Ross, from Penn State Health Neuroscience Institute, in Hershey, Pa. About 38 million Americans experience migraines -- some many times per month. These episodes are most common from the teens through the 40s, but can occur at any age. About 20% of women and 6% of men are affected. Treatment doesn't work for everyone, but "people can go into remission, with no attacks for months or even years," Ross...

TUESDAY, March 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are far more likely than their straight peers to suffer physical and/or sexual violence, new research warns. The warning stems from surveys of nearly 29,000 teens, aged 14 to 18, conducted in 2015 and 2017 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, LGBQ teens (lesbian, gay, bisexual and teens who are questioning their sexuality) face roughly twice the risk of physical violence compared with straight youth, the surveys revealed. And that risk can come from a romantic partner -- or anyone else. Lead author Theodore Caputi said the study is the first to use a recent, nationally representative sample to gauge the scope of physical and sexual violence among LGBQ teens. He described the...

TUESDAY, March 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The exact method that's now cured two men of HIV infection is not one that's going to be widely available to the nearly 38 million people worldwide living with the virus, experts say. Still, the news has rekindled hopes of finally winning the war against the virus that causes AIDS. The Berlin and London patients benefited from a combination of medical and genetic chance, the experts explained. And even with luck on their side, the two men had to undergo a grueling treatment that could easily have killed them. "There are a number of circumstances that limit the applicability of this to people around the world," said Rowena Johnston, vice president and director of research at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. But the two cases --...