Korle Bu's National Cardiothoracic Centre u has successfully performed its first off-pump coronary artery bypass surgeries, ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have analyzed nearly 86,500 surgeries at Baystate Medical Center to ...

Most of the time, it’s easy to be in the placebo group of a clinical trial: no side effects, minimal annoyance, and you may even get paid for it. (Though, of course, for people hoping the therapy will ...

In the past month, Tampa’s BayCare Health System has seen a tenfold increase in Covid-19 patients at its 14 acute care hospitals in central Florida. Expecting this surge to get worse, its executives ...

Who Needs Bladder Suspension Surgery? Your doctor may recommend bladder suspension surgery if you have moderate to severe stress incontinence that does not get better with non-invasive treatments such ...

Multiple surgeries could lead to cognitive decline, a University of Sydney study has found, using data from the United Kingdom's Biobank to analyze half a million patients aged 40 to 69 and followed ...

When Hurricane Helene took out a factory making 60% of the country's IV fluids, it caused shortages that have led to canceled surgeries. A look at the effects and prospects for improvement. IV fluids ...

Just seven types of procedures account for about 80 percent of all hospital admissions, deaths, complications, and costs attributed to emergency general surgeries across the country, according to new ...

A study released today is the latest to find that pre-weekend surgeries can be riskier than surgeries after the weekend. Reading time 2 minutes If you have the chance to plan your next surgery, you ...

Tiffany Bruce spends every day, all day, thinking about pain. Her own, yes, but also the thousands of people she has met online who are, like her, recovering from spine surgery and often, like her, ...

Unlike the initial surge of COVID-19 in the United States this spring, fewer hospitals are choosing to suspend elective surgeries despite an increase in coronavirus patients in several states. Here ...