Some of her organs were later discovered with signs of inadequate blood supply. The failure of a Raffles Hospital doctor to ...

PARIS — Despite some potential advantages, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) failed to meet the primary prespecified threshold for noninferiority to surgical aortic valve replacement in ...

Surgical intervention for kidney stones in patients with a history of UTIs has no significant effect on UTI relapse. Kidney stone removal surgery in patients with a history of urinary tract infections ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old woman who is in relatively good health. My primary exercise is walking my dogs anywhere from 2-5 miles per day. I have two Morton’s neuromas in my left foot, and ...

A proposal for a new Palos Hills, Ill.-based surgery center failed to garner enough votes to pass at a meeting of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board on Jan. 10, according to a ...

Cox provides a lesson in the applicability of ERISA when benefit claims are turned down. “Generally, ERISA does not mandate what benefits employers must provide if they choose to have a plan,” the ...

County commissions in Harnett, N.C., have rejected the latest request to endorse plans for a new ambulatory surgery center near Erwin, N.C., according to a Fayetteville Observer report. FirstHealth of ...

Tubal sterilization is thought to be a permanent form of birth control and is the most common method of contraception nationally. But a new study led by UC San Francisco reports that tubal surgery ...

Hair loss affects most men and women, but we all deal with it in wildly different ways. While many accept hair loss as a fact of life, others are profoundly shaken by their change in appearance. Those ...

No surgery quite crosses the existential line the way transplant surgery does. Create a single chimeric human with the tissues of another and the very sense of self goes wobbly. In most cases, the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old woman who is in relatively good health. My primary exercise is walking my dogs anywhere from 2-5 miles per day. I have two Morton's neuromas in my left foot, and ...

Discovered: Weight loss surgery fails to reduce diabetes; E. coli often comes from cities, not cattle; big guts could mean brittle bones for men; sea levels rose nearly half an inch over past 20 years ...