What Doctors Don't Tell YouExcessive bleeding or pain
* Drugs or devices: birth-control pills; drugs that reduce female hormones; a blood-clotting agent called tranexamic acid; an intrauterine device -
Infertility leaves many couples feeling helpless, even hopeless, and at the mercy of modern medicine in the quest to do what Mother Nature intended us to do - create life.
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:We are facing the prospect of having to undergo investigations in an attempt to determine the cause of our infertility. We have been trying to have a baby for almost three years. Tests done ha ...
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...
* If you do opt for keyhole surgery, make sure the surgeon is very experienced and that the hospital performs these operations on a regular basis. Most injuries caused by this type of surgery are the result of an inexperienced surgeon. If you are in...
One of the most common bread-and-butter treatments within the surgical profession is the hernia operation. Some 20 million groin hernia repairs are performed each year - 100,000 in the UK
Female sterilisation is touted as a safe and hassle-free means of permanently ridding yourself of having more children, particularly for the over-40s. Although doctors usually tell women that tying your tubes is ‘Band-Aid’ surgery, there’s nothing...
Surgeons’ ability to perform laparoscopic procedures declines significantly after spending a night on call, according to a new report.
While medical authorities are looking at improving competence levels of surgeons performing laparoscopic "keyhole" surgery, new evidence has emerged to show some of the techniques themselves are a ...
