The likelihood of dying after emergency abdominal surgery to treat conditions such as appendicitis, may be up to seven times greater for a child in a poor country than for a child in a rich nation, suggests research published ...
Dec 12, 2016
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(HealthDay)— U.S. health officials are warning about the dangers of "medical tourism" after at least 18 women from the East Coast became infected with a disfiguring bacteria following plastic surgery procedures they had ...
Jul 14, 2016
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An expandable tube that unblocks the bowel before surgery could lead to fewer cancer patients—diagnosed as emergencies—needing a colostomy bag.The Cancer Research UK-funded CReST trial presented at the 2016 American Society ...
Jun 4, 2016
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New research has shown that patients undergoing emergency surgery in lower income countries have a three times greater chance of dying than in higher income countries.
May 3, 2016
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An article recently published in the International Journal of Surgery highlights some of the challenges that England's NHS faces regarding emergency care for elderly patients.
Mar 17, 2016
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A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure ...
Feb 25, 2016
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A California man suffering from violent headaches learned just in time what was making him ill: a tapeworm larvae that had lodged in his brain.
Nov 5, 2015
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Federal health regulators have approved a drug to reverse the blood-thinning effects of the popular pill Pradaxa, which has been subject to thousands of reports of severe bleeding.
Oct 16, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Acute care revisits occur with considerable frequency among low-risk patients undergoing ambulatory operations, with a substantial proportion of revisits occurring in emergency departments, according to a research ...
Oct 8, 2015
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Research from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is revealing the heavy surgical consequences of severe obesity.
Jun 10, 2015
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