COVID PPE failures left health care workers and patients at risk: What lessons the government needs to learn
The latest report published as part of the COVID-19 inquiry has found the UK was not adequately prepared for a pandemic.
Jul 22, 2026
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Equipment and Supplies: News and Research on Surgical Equipment
MeSH tree: E07.858
The best surgery for pelvic organ prolapse?
Women suffering from pelvic organ prolapse might be best served by surgery that preserves their uterus rather than removing it, a landmark clinical trial reports.
Jul 21, 2026
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Medicare's AI push snarls patients and doctors in errors and delays
Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his ...
Jun 24, 2026
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Programmable wound zipper adapts to complex skin injuries, improving healing in rats
Skin is our protective barrier from the outside world, and it is highly susceptible to damage. To prevent infection, restore protective skin cells, and reduce scarring, it is essential to quickly and robustly close a wound. ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Light-powered link lets wireless endoscope stream 4K images in operating room
Medical imaging devices such as endoscopes transmit their data via cables to monitors and hospital information systems. In collaboration with partners, Fraunhofer researchers in the OWIMED project are working to make data ...
May 4, 2026
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More children are surviving long enough for heart transplants—but not enough hearts exist, say experts
Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts warned at the International ...
Apr 25, 2026
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Tourette's tics are not just motor misfires—an emotion-linked brain circuit may open a new treatment frontier
While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse study has now discovered a connection to the brain's emotional functions. The result promises a new ...
Apr 22, 2026
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Flexible optical fiber technology can improve laser surgery for voice box tumors
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have developed a flexible optical fiber that can be threaded through a medical endoscope and steered into the larynx to destroy hard-to-reach tumors on the vocal folds, an ...
Apr 8, 2026
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A redesigned endoscope offers a new way to look for early signs of ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer remains the deadliest gynecologic cancer, largely because it is rarely found early. Symptoms are often vague, and existing screening approaches—such as blood tests and transvaginal ultrasound—can miss the disease ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Obstructive sleep apnea may cost UK and US economies billions in lost productivity
Untreated obstructive sleep apnea may be costing the UK and US economies billions of pounds/dollars in lost productivity every year, with a considerable proportion of working-age adults experiencing symptoms indicative of ...
Feb 24, 2026
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