Surgery

Innovative care system aims to save severed limbs

The number of traumatic amputations is rising worldwide—caused by road traffic accidents, accidents at work or during leisure activities, but also as a result of terrorist attacks or war. Only a few specialist clinics are ...

HIV & AIDS

Twice-a-year HIV prevention shots begin in Africa

South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden.

Oncology & Cancer

Histotripsy: How sound waves could impact tumor treatment

For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of them all. But a new approach is beginning to offer something very different. By using nothing ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Shake-up of services needed to ease fibromyalgia pain, survey finds

People frequently wait years to be "taken seriously," postcode lotteries for access to care and a general lack of knowledge are among some of the key findings from a University of Aberdeen investigation into fibromyalgia ...

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