Surgery News

Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s.

A spokeswoman for Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says in-patient surgeries a troubled VA hospital in southern Illinois should resume in the spring.

The best bypass surgery choice may be to use a heartlung machine, after all, according to a new study published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine .

All ophthalmic , or eye, surgeons are ophthalmologists , meaning they're trained as medical doctors, so they're qualified to deal with all pathologies of the eye, as well as refractive errors.

Nov. 5, 2009 - Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s.

By Parvez Butt, Srinagar, Nov 5: Sensing the increasing number of militancy related injuries like bomb blasts in Jammu and Kashmir which has left many victims with facial injuries, a seminar was organized here to make the doctors aware of the latest treatments and equipments to treat such cases.

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.

Leading surgeons based at Southampton's university hospitals are carrying out cutting edge brain surgery through the nose.

Much has been written and discussed about the restrictions placed on physicians attending pharmaceutical and other life-science industry corporation training and educational programs, in particular, at high-end resorts throughout North America.

A surgeon at Childrena s National Medical Center and his colleagues from New York University have found laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding to improve the health of morbidly obese adolescents.

Each knee has two menisci: one on the inside of the knee joint and one on the outside.

It is "preposterous" to contend that a Toronto cosmetic surgeon's liposuction surgery didn't contribute to her patient's death, an expert testified yesterday.

Serious safety issues continued to plague a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital even after major surgeries were suspended two years ago because of a spike in patient deaths, according to a federal report released Monday.

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 fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, state health officials said Monday.

Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery .

Dr. Tracy Cordray is a plastic surgeon specializing in breast surgery, microsurgery, as well as other plastic surgery procedures.

William Kuzon, MD, PhD, Reed O. Dingman professor and section head of plastic surgery, University of Michigan, has been named president of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation at Plastic Surgery 2009, the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons .

Anita Gurung, 29, needed a drastic operation because her heart was connected back to front.

A new "one-step" test allows breast cancer patients to be treated directly if their disease has spread, meaning that they no longer have to wait weeks for test results to come back or undergo a second operation.

Worried about what to do with fat you've had liposuctioned from pudgy areas? Researchers have turned it into stem cells in the lab, but here's a more immediate use: Fat liposuctioned from other parts of the body can safely be used to increase a woman's breast size, according to study findings presented this week at the Plastic Surgery 2009 meeting ...