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. ...
We've been trying to make gallstones disappear for several thousand years, yet the magic act still hasn't been perfected. Although gallstones can occur at any time, the average "sufferer" is betwe ...
We know where they come from, we have a good idea what to do about many of them, yet gallstones are one of medicine's great travesties. Nearly one in every seven adults or 20 million Americans su ...
Recently, minimally invasive, or keyhole, surgery (laparoscopy see ... ...
Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...
