While strokes associated with surgery are rare, a person who undergoes a surgical procedure soon after having suffered a stroke can be eight times more likely to suffer a perioperative stroke, defined as occurring within ...
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Whether a woman is giving birth or a man is having a cancer biopsy, medical care is rarely straightforward. At any point, an unexpected complication can arise, particularly during treatments that require several steps.
Jun 27, 2022
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Doctors at the UCLA Gender Health Program have developed a technique to reduce an Adam's apple bump without leaving a scar on the patient's neck.
Jun 22, 2022
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A new study conducted at the RI-MUHC concludes that prescribing opioid analgesics at discharge after surgery does not reduce postoperative pain and increases the risk of adverse events.
Jun 20, 2022
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Urgent action is needed to clear the backlog of people with a common heart condition waiting for life-saving treatment, according to new research.
Jun 17, 2022
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Ischemia can occur anywhere in your body. It's a term to describe what happens when a blood vessel is blocked, preventing blood and oxygen from reaching it. For those with hand ischemia, an inadequate supply of blood to the ...
Jun 16, 2022
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June is Men's Health Month. Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in American men. It's the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer.
Jun 15, 2022
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In the fall of 2021, Danielle Geohagan woke up in a Turkish clinic, disoriented. Her body was shivering despite the stack of blankets piled on her healing midsection, and she was hungry after going more than 12 hours without ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Currently, patients in seven states can tell their physicians they don't want to be treated with opioids in any health care setting, even during surgery. While unnecessary opioid exposure is a big reason behind the opioid ...
Jun 13, 2022
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When Megumi Ota needed the morning-after pill in Japan, she couldn't get a prescription in time under a policy activists call an attempt to "control" women's reproductive rights.
Jun 10, 2022
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