Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna have left intensive care as they continue their remarkable recovery from surgery to separate their conjoined heads, the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Robotic surgery is safe for use in children, but there's little evidence that outcomes for this type of ...
A pair of Bangladeshi twins who are joined at the head will undergo a risky and highly complex operation to separate them next week, Australian surgeons said on Friday. Trishna and Krishna, now almost three years old, have undergone a series of ...
A pair of Bangladeshi twins who are joined at the head will undergo a risky and highly complex operation to separate them next week, Australian surgeons said on Friday. Trishna and Krishna, now almost three years old, have undergone a series of ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - A new surgical technique using glue to repair breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery speeds up recovery time and is "substantially less painful" for patients, a University of Calgary scientist said on Thursday. The standard practice in operating rooms ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have developed a surgical technique that may allow cancer-suffering women to regrow their breasts after having a mastectomy, with human trials planned to start within three to six months. The procedure involves inserting a breast-shaped chamber, containing ...
Angioplasty in kidney blood vessels has surprising risks, no benefit, British researchers find If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of Danish women who had surgery for breast cancer, nearly half still reported pain 2 to 3 years later, according to a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. "Our study ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday. Doctors at 18 Veterans Affairs medical centers found that ...
Study shows worse outcomes for newer 'off-pump' heart bypass, better with heart-lung machine It seemed like a great idea — doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. ...
RI hospital fined $150,000 in 5th wrong-site surgery since 2007, video cameras to be installed Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the extraordinary step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its ...
HEALTHBEAT: Effort to address breast cancer in poor countries focuses on exams, cheaper chemo Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health ...
