What Doctors Don't Tell YouEstablished surgeons will have to work for a certificate of competence before they can practise keyhole surgery. The move follows growing numbers of cases of patients injured or even killed by sur ...
More people are having unnecessary gall bladder operations simply because surgeons find the new surgical techniques easier to perform. ...
Unproven surgical treatments are to come under similar controls in Britain as drugs currently are. A monitoring system is to be set up shortly, mainly following the adverse publicity which surroun ...
In 18 November 1993 my wife had a routine gallbladder keyhole operation, which appeared to be successful. Two days later, she was given a bed pan and she thought that she was urinating. To her ...
Keyhole surgery can trigger gallbladder cancer or cause it to recur, researchers have found. The procedure, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which involves the removal of the gall bladder, c ...
New research from the UK has prompted calls for a curtailment of laparoscopic hernia repairs, in favour of general surgery. ...
Keyhole surgery, the gee-whiz technology that has transformed surgery, still doesn’t work as well as the old-fashioned conventional surgery for hernia.
Q-Is there anything, apart from conventional antifungals, that can cure persistent fungal nail infection? I have suffered from this condition for several years and nothing seems to get rid of it c ...
Many surgeons believe that some organs in the body really aren’t necessary, so when things go wrong, they can be removed with no harm done. A common example of this is a cholecystectomy - surgical removal of the gallbladder. The gallbladder...
