Surgery

Protecting nerve tissue during bowel surgery

After bowel surgery, more than half of the patients suffer from irreparable nerve damage. Now scientists have developed an assistance system that warns surgeons about the risk of inflicting possible injury during operations ...

Oncology & Cancer

Call for research into needs of cancer survivors

Around one in three US cancer survivors have unmet physical, psychological and social needs decades after their treatment finished, according to new research.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Continuous oral contraceptive pills offer women earlier pain relief

(Medical Xpress) -- Taking oral contraceptives continuously, rather than as traditionally prescribed for each cycle, provides earlier relief for moderate to severe menstrual cramps -- dysmenorrhea -- according to researchers ...