Getting a cold or other illness right before surgery may or may not delay the scheduled procedure. If your illness is related to the reason you're having surgery, such as chest pain, then heart ...

When stocking up before your surgery or getting back to shopping after surgery, take a look at your regular diet and see if there are any positive changes you could make. This may include eating more ...

Experts from Duke Cancer Institute discuss the creation of individualized management plans to transition patients from oncologist to primary care physician. Beyond Cancer: A Multidisciplinary ...

Despite being potentially lifesaving, bowel obstruction surgery is associated with a high rate of death during surgery or shortly after the procedure. If left untreated, bowel obstruction can be ...

"It's really magical to have this model and all we do is feed it camera input and it can predict the robotic movements needed for surgery," said senior author Axel Krieger. "We believe this marks ...

The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic ...

The boy's mother noticed after returning home that the surgery had been performed on the wrong eye, the family confronted the doctor. A seven-year-old boy who went in for surgery on his left eye ...

Surgery is a procedure in which incision and physical manipulation are used to treat a patient with an injury or a disease. The patient's tissues are cut during this technique to permit the ...

The mother of a young child with scoliosis has said it “feels quite surreal” that he has been given a surgery date after 33 long months on a waiting list. Gillian Sherratt's son Harvey has ...

Ahmedabad: Doctors at Civil Hospital successfully reattached the severed hand of a 10-year-old boy following a complex microsurgery procedure that lasted 10 hours. The incident occurred when ...