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Pandemic 'exacerbated NHS struggle to meet demand'

NHS Scotland must treat at least 20% more non-emergency hospital cases over the next three years to eliminate the backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new analysis involving the University of Strathclyde.

Plastic device aids robot-assisted heart surgery

Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the operating table to help the surgeon insert the robot arm through a small incision. The assistant has to constantly make sure the surgeon has enough room to ...

Understanding athletes with lymphoma

One July evening, Allison Rosenthal, D.O., received a flurry of texts with exclamations like, "Yo, my doctor friend is famous!"

Video: What is laryngeal chondrosarcoma?

You may have heard about a recent first at Mayo Clinic, a total larynx transplant. What you may not have heard was what precipitated that transplant. The patient developed a rare form of cancer called laryngeal chondrosarcoma.

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