New York, September 17 -- In an unusual procedure using the patient’s tooth, surgeons at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine restored the eyesight of a blind woman.
New York, September 15 -- A meta-analysis has revealed that the widely used implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), which detect abnormal heart rhythms and offer a life-saving shock to restore a regular heartbeat, don’t lower the risk of deaths in women with heart failure.
New Delhi, September 4 -- In a path-breaking surgery, a 10-day-old baby, whose heart was protruding out of his chest at birth, got successfully operated upon by the doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Thursday.
Mumbai, August 29: Performing a major liver re-resection on a 58-year-old man suffering from a recurrent cancerous liver tumor, the team at Wockhardt Hospitals led by Dr S K Mathur excised the tumors in an grueling 11-hour surgical procedure.
Durham, August 29: A latest research suggests that surgery is a better and more helpful option than balloon angioplasty
for avoiding strokes.
Madurai, August 29: The state of Tamil Nadu refuses to learn its lessons when it comes to performing surgery stunts. Few years back, a boy surgeon from Madurai had performed hysterectomy in order to break the age record, but instead landed in jail.
Delhi, August 20: Call it help for mutual benefit, international co-operation or attribute it to the wonderful ways of God. An infant and a lady in her mid-forties, who were strangers till about a few months back, today share a very special bond. A bond that has roots in giving new life to both of them!
North Carolina, August 8: Contrary to the popular perception, women who have breast reconstruction performed either at the time of undergoing mastectomy or at a later point of time, do not experience better quality of life vis-à-vis their counterparts who do not undergo such reconstruction.
London, August 6: An extensively used and hugely popular surgical treatment for painful spinal compression fractures that involves the use of cement to strengthen cracks in the spine is as good as having no treatment.
Colorado, July 13: New research has revealed that knee surgery may not, as one might expect, shorten a player’s professional career.
