United States Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth

This study aimed to compare two surgical approaches for treating pilonidal disease, a chronic skin infection near the tailbone. It planned to randomly assign patients to either a traditional wide excision or a newer, less invasive minimal excision. The main goals were to see whic…

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.…