What Doctors Don't Tell YouMen may get more then they bargained for when they have hair transplants. In a recent case study, the transplant was a success, but doctors nearly lost the patient. ...
New research from the UK has prompted calls for a curtailment of laparoscopic hernia repairs, in favour of general surgery. ...
Even if the repair operation is a technical ‘success’, bile duct injury (BDI) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal by ‘keyhole’ surgery) has a strong adverse effect on the patient’s quality of life for many years after the...
Doctors reach for this mechanical miracle to sort out all manner of cardiac irregularities, but problems with pacemakers are legion from design flaws to poor placement and they are vastly overused.
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 ...
At some point in our lives, 80 per cent of all of us living in the West will suffer from disabling low back pain. Every year, 12 million Americans make new-patient visits to their doctor for chronic low back problems and 100 million patient visits...
Surgery for breast cancer increases the risk of relapse or death within three years following the procedure, cancer specialist Michael Baum has revealed.
Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...
A recent analysis of 37,151 patients receiving atenolol (a long-acting beta-blocker) or metoprolol (a short-acting beta-blocker) in patients aged over 65 undergoing elective surgery found that those given long-acting atenolol had a far lower cardiac...
