United States Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth

This study aimed to compare two ways to surgically treat pilonidal disease, a painful skin condition near the tailbone. It planned to randomly assign patients to either a large, open-wound surgery or a newer, smaller, less invasive procedure. The goal was to see which method had …

This study is testing whether a long-acting numbing medicine injected during nose surgery can help patients use fewer opioid pain pills afterward. 50 patients having nose surgery will be randomly assigned to receive either the numbing injection or a placebo (saltwater) injection.…