A St. Clair County dad is fighting Medicaid’s denial of lifesaving surgery for his 17-year-old daughter with aggressive bone ...

Chinese firm MedBot has achieved EU approval for its teleoperated surgery robot after a successful prostate cancer operation.

Your recovery from shoulder surgery will depend on several factors. These include your type of injury and surgery and your overall health. Your shoulder joint can be damaged through an injury or ...

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Smoking cigarettes before surgery can increase the risk of severe complications. Some complications carry a risk of death. In some extreme cases, doctors may refuse to operate on people who smoke.

If you want to learn about surgeries to treat breast cancer, this is a place to start. We’ll explain surgeries such as mastectomy, lumpectomy, lymph node biopsy, and lymph node removal. For most ...

On Monday, Dr. May-Anh Nguyen, a minimally invasive surgeon at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, helped guide Ivana, 13, a ...

Blurry vision after surgery is not uncommon. It can be a short-term side effect of many eye surgeries, and it can even occur after surgeries that do not involve your eyes. Before you have surgery, a ...

Who Needs Bladder Suspension Surgery? Your doctor may recommend bladder suspension surgery if you have moderate to severe stress incontinence that does not get better with non-invasive treatments such ...

Many of us will have been in situations with older loved ones where a doctor says surgery is too risky given the patient’s advanced age. Why is it surgery becomes risky in the elderly, and is it based ...