Latest medical research, by specialty

Every week Web of Medicine reads the new papers in Q1 journals for each specialty and keeps the ones that matter to practising clinicians. Each list gives you the top studies of the week and a paper of the day, with a short summary and an Oxford CEBM evidence level for every study. Updated 7 November 2026.

• Anatomy

  This week's top study: Remnant preservation and stump suturing in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction reduce tibial tunnel widening without compromising tunnel placement: A computed tomography-based randomised controlled trial

• Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

  This week's top study: Effects of perioperative esketamine infusion on chronic pain after video-assisted thoracoscopic lung resection: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind clinical trial

• Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

  This week's top study: Effect of Study Design on the Conclusions of Randomized Clinical Trials: Systematic Review and Meta-analyses on Sleeve Gastrectomy vs. Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Weight Loss Outcomes after Metabolic Bariatric Surgery

• Biochemistry (medical)

  This week's top study: Short and long-term outcomes after gestational diabetes diagnosis using different glycemic criteria: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Breast and Endocrine Surgery

  This week's top study: Use of autofluorescence and/or indocyanine green in thyroid surgery: recommendations by the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES)

• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

  This week's top study: Impact of obesity on clinical outcomes and the treatment effect of catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation: insights from CABANA

• Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

  This week's top study: Permissive Blood Pressure Targets in Pediatric Critical Care: The PRESSURE Randomized Clinical Trial

• Dermatology

  This week's top study: Meta-analysis and network meta-analysis of time-to-event outcomes with non-proportional hazards: a Bayesian time-varying hazard ratio approach

• Embryology
• Emergency Medicine

  This week's top study: Performance of 0/1 h versus 0/3 h pathways in patients with suspected myocardial infarction: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

• Epidemiology
• Family Practice

  This week's top study: Specialist Referral for Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Gastroenterology

  This week's top study: Endoscopic Balloon Dilation Versus Endoscopic Stricturotomy for Short Crohn's Disease Strictures: The BEST-CD Randomized Trial

• Genetics (clinical)

  This week's top study: Diagnostic Yield and Clinical Actionability of Genetic Testing in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

• Health Informatics

  This week's top study: Effectiveness of Wrist-Worn Wearable-Guided Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivered Through Fully Remote or Hybrid Programs in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

• Hematology

  This week's top study: Iberdomide plus daratumumab and dexamethasone versus daratumumab, bortezomib, and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (EXCALIBER-RRMM): an open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial

• Histology

  This week's top study: Systemic and Histopathological Effects of Bromelain-Based Enzymatic Debridement in Human Burns-A Systematic Review

• Immunology and Allergy

  This week's top study: Classroom Microbiome Signatures of Pest Management Associate with Reduced Asthma Symptoms

• Internal Medicine

  This week's top study: Impact of malnutrition and protein-enriched oral nutrition on early recovery after fragility fractures in older adults: the NuTra trial

• Medical Physics

  This week's top study: Efficacy and safety of curative-intent intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for inoperable, locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer: A systematic review

• Microbiology (medical)
• Nephrology

  This week's top study: Colchicine and Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury: A Substudy of the COP-AF Randomized Clinical Trial

• Neurology (clinical)

  This week's top study: Effects of minocycline on health-related quality of life in patients with acute ischaemic stroke in China: a prespecified secondary analysis of the EMPHASIS trial

• Oncology and Radiation Oncology

  This week's top study: Izalontamab brengitecan versus platinum-based chemotherapy in EGFR-mutated advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer after progression on third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (PANKU-Lung01): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial in China

• Ophthalmology

  This week's top study: Outcomes of subthreshold diode micropulse laser and anti-VEGF vs anti-VEGF monotherapy for diabetic macular edema: a meta-analysis

• Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

  This week's top study: Restricted Kinematic Alignment Improves Function, But Does Not Reduce Kinesiophobia After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A 3-Year Follow-Up Study

• Pathology and Forensic Medicine
• Pediatric Surgery

  This week's top study: Telemedicine Consultation for Pediatric Trauma in Community ED Visits and Parent Experience of Care: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial

• Pediatrics and Child Health

  This week's top study: Prone positioning and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in early paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PROSpect): an international, two-by-two factorial, response-adaptive, phase 3, randomised controlled trial

• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

  This week's top study: Systemic and Histopathological Effects of Bromelain-Based Enzymatic Debridement in Human Burns-A Systematic Review

• Psychiatry and Mental Health

  This week's top study: The effects of the arts and arts therapies on mental health outcomes of children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
• Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

  This week's top study: Automated Opportunistic Bone Mineral Density Assessment at Low-Dose CT Lung Cancer Screening: Incident Vertebral Fractures and Mortality

• Radiation Oncology

  This week's top study: Neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy followed by camrelizumab and chemotherapy versus standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer (UNION): a prespecified interim analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial

• Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Physics and Imaging

  This week's top study: Revascularization in Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis With Hemodynamic Impairment and Cognitive Outcomes: The CREST-H Substudy of the CREST-2 Randomized Clinical Trial

• Rehabilitation

  This week's top study: Cervical Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Upper Limb Motor Function in Participants With and Without Neurologic Disorders: A Systematic Review of Parameters, Methods, and Safety

• Spine Surgery

  This week's top study: Minimally invasive versus open surgery for the management of thoracolumbar spondylodiscitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

• Surgery

  This week's top study: Neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy followed by camrelizumab and chemotherapy versus standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer (UNION): a prespecified interim analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial

• Surgical Oncology

  This week's top study: Neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy followed by camrelizumab and chemotherapy versus standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer (UNION): a prespecified interim analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial

• Urology

  This week's top study: Durvalumab, Tremelimumab, and Enfortumab Vedotin in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

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