In a study conducted in Uganda and published in JAMA Surgery, researchers from Karolinska Institutet evaluated a new surgical method for treating groin hernias in women. The method could become an alternative in resource-limited ...
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The 50th anniversary of the blockbuster "Jaws" may leave some fearful of swimming in the open waters, but the reality is that shark bites are rare. Experts with the American College of Surgeons are available for media interviews ...
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Duke Health has pioneered a world's-first technique that could expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants in the U.S. by up to 20%—offering new hope to families on the waitlist.
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Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies—advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused.
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Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or "breathing lung" technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This discovery offers new hope ...
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a new way of predicting whether a kidney donor and recipient are a good match for transplantation.
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Hemorrhagic strokes account for just 13% of the nearly 800,000 strokes that occur in the U.S. each year, yet they are responsible for more than 40% of all stroke-related deaths. These devastating brain bleeds have long lacked ...
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Medical tourism for bariatric and weight-reduction surgery needs urgent regulation to protect recipients' health, especially as the data show that tourist numbers are increasing despite the advent of weight loss drugs, say ...
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For patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP), velar adhesion (VA) reduces cleft width prior to palatoplasty and is associated with a lower incidence of otitis media with effusion (OME), according to a study published ...
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