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13 May
Maryland Woman Has Rare Spinal Tumor Removed Through Her Eye Socket
In a groundbreaking procedure, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have removed a large spinal tumor through a 19-year-old patient’s eye.
07 Feb
Plastic Surgery for ‘Ozempic Face’ Growing in Popularity
Hollow cheeks and sagging skin are driving more weight-loss patients to the plastic surgeon; a new survey finds.
02 Dec
Surgery versus Antibiotics in Childhood Appendicitis
A new study finds antibiotic-only treatment for appendicitis in children is safe, effective and less costly than surgery.
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A 67-year-old New Hampshire man has set a medical milestone after living more than nine months with a gene-edited pig kidney, doctors announced Monday.
The experimental transplant, performed by surgeons at Mass General Brigham, lasted 271 days, the longest anyone has survived with an animal organ.
Doctors said Tim Andrews of Concord, New Hampshire, had the transplanted kidney ...
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- October 28, 2025
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A young boy in New Zealand needed emergency surgery and lost part of his bowel after swallowing more than 80 small, high-powered magnets, according to a new case report published in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
Doctors said the boy swallowed between 80 and 1...
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- October 28, 2025
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Imagine popping by your eye doctor’s office for a quick cataract surgery.
That appears to be the future for this vision-enhancing procedure, researchers reported Saturday at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s
Scientists have restored partial vision to people with a common form of blindness using a prosthetic retinal implant, a first that could one day improve life for more than a million Americans with severe vision loss.
The new technology — developed by Califonia-based Science Corporation — helped 27 of 32 patients regain enough sight to read bl...
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- October 21, 2025
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Most kids go without clear liquids at least three times longer than guidelines recommend prior to surgery, a new study says.
About 4 out of 5 children and infants (79%) are on liquid fasts far longer than necessary, risking dehydration and
Remote monitoring of cancer patients can improve their recovery after surgery, a new study says.
People whose health team tracked their symptoms remotely wound up recovering more quickly from surgery, researchers reported in the journal
A simple shunt can restore walking ability and independence in elderly people with a rare brain condition, a major new clinical trial has found.
Implanting a shunt to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid significantly improved walking and mobility among seniors with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), researchers reported Sept. 16 in
Same-day cataract surgery on both eyes can be safe, effective and practical, according to a pair of new studies.
Cataract surgery typically is performed on one eye then the other, with procedures scheduled weeks or months apart.
But getting surgery done on both eyes at once works just as well, and doesn’t appear to interfere with patients’ ability to manage on their own ...
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- September 12, 2025
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A young woman became a June bride months after surviving complex surgery to remove a 40-pound tumor from her body, Cedars-Sinai doctors report.
Adriana Pulido, 24, died on the operating table six times during an early attempt to remove the huge tumor.
Located near her liver, the tumor had grown so large that it had displaced her heart and was pressing against her right lung.
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- July 14, 2025
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Fasting is a well-known hassle associated with surgery.
Patients are required to go without food or liquid for hours because of fears they’ll vomit while under anesthesia, potentially causing pneumonia if stomach contents are inhaled.
But this long-standing practice might not be nece...
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- June 27, 2025
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Emergency surgeries are gnawing away at U.S. health care spending, with racial disparities fueling the bill, a new study says.
Emergency surgeries cost about 33% more than planned procedures, averaging $13,645 more per patient, researchers write.
And costs for these emergency procedures are even higher among Americans of color, results show.
Emergency surgeries are needed when...
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- June 10, 2025
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Immunotherapy combined with chemo can give people a fighting chance against stomach and esophageal cancers, a new clinical trial says.
People treated with durvalumab and chemotherapy were much more likely ...
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- June 6, 2025
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Dr. Robert Jarvik, the man behind the world’s first permanent artificial heart used in a human, has died.
He was 79, The New York Times reported.
His wife, writer Marilyn vos Savant, said he died Monday at their home in Manhattan due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Jarvik...
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- May 30, 2025
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Cataract surgery is one of the most foolproof procedures in medicine, with a success rate as high as 95%.
Nevertheless, many seniors don’t get cataract surgery because they fear losing their sight, researchers reported recently in
Doctors in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, offering new hope to people with serious bladder problems.
The surgery was done earlier this month by two doctors from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC), The New York Times reported.
The patient, 41-year-old Oscar Larrainzar, had l...
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- May 19, 2025
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A first-of-its-kind surgery has gone through a young woman's eye socket to remove a cancerous tumor wrapped around her spine.
Surgeons threaded a thin lighted tube called an endoscope down through the 19-year-old woman’s eye socket to remove a rare, slow-growing bone tumor known as a chordo...
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- May 13, 2025
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Removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes appears to dramatically reduce the risk of death among breast cancer survivors who are genetically prone to cancer, a new study says.
Breast cancer survivors carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene variants had a 48% overall lower risk of death after u...
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- May 9, 2025
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Some men would rather skip screening for prostate cancer due to fears that they’ll be rendered impotent or incontinent from cancer surgery.
But new research says those fears are unwarranted, thanks to improvements in the way doctors approach prostate cancer.
The number of unnecessa...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 8, 2025
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Four specific genes serve as a telltale clue to how potentially deadly stomach cancers will develop and progress, a new study says.
Testing for these genetic mutations could enable doctors to offer targeted treatments and spare some patients from going through aggressive measures like surg...
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- April 25, 2025
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Folks are less likely to recover successfully from a total hip replacement if they have poor muscle quality going into the procedure, a small-scale study says.
Patients whose MRI scans revealed fatty hip muscle prior to surgery were more likely to perform poorly ...
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- April 23, 2025
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They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.
The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of delirium, new research suggests.
Seniors who have thicker retinas are about 60% more likely to develop post-surgical delirium, researchers reported April 1 in the journal
Breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer might not conserve as much as previously thought, a new study suggests.
Women’s breasts can shrink considerably after they’ve undergone radiation therapy and lumpectomy for their early-stage breast cancer, researcher...
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- March 31, 2025
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A pioneering technique can help nearly twice as many men preserve erectile function following prostate cancer surgery, researchers say.
The new surgical method, called NeuroSAFE, preserves the nerves that run through the prostate’s outer layers, which are thought to be responsible for pr...
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- March 28, 2025
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The first sign of seizures for Amanda Bradbury were auras in her vision that cropped up around age 19.
Then came frequent bouts of anxiety, struggling to maintain focus and follow conversations, forgetting things, and having difficulty speaking or even swallowing.
“One of the things that would happen before a seizure is I'd get an intense feeling of fear, which I now realize w...
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- March 26, 2025
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A high-tech T-shirt loaded with sensors can help track patients’ vital signs after their release from a hospital, researchers say.
The shirt could help people return home sooner to recover, based on findings from a small group of patients who wore the gadget-filled garment after urological surgery for cancer.
“Our patients found the T-shirt easy to use and over 90% repor...
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- March 25, 2025
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Folks facing surgery on a Friday may want to consider rescheduling if they can based on findings from a new study.
People who undergo surgery just before the weekend have a significantly increased risk of death and complications, researchers reported March 4 in JAMA Network Open.
This “...
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- March 5, 2025
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In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North Carolina.
The procedure became possible after 11-year-old Journi Kelly, from Wilson, N.C., received a full heart transplant at Duke.
Instead of getting rid of her original heart, ...
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- March 3, 2025
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Artificial intelligence (AI) might help treat childhood epilepsy by detecting brain abnormalities that are causing kids’ seizures, a new study suggests.
The AI tool, called MELD Graph, found 64% of brain lesions linked to epilepsy that human radiologists had previously missed, researchers report in JAMA...
Powerful synthetic opioids are meant to serve as painkillers, but new research suggests their use during surgery might actually prompt worse pain during patients’ recovery.
The use of two types of synthetic opioid during surgery is linked to patients having a poor “pain experience” -- a composite of the emotional, cognitive and mental aspects of pain, researchers said.
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- February 27, 2025
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Mia Jack was stealing a glance backward when she lost control of the quadbike she’d been motoring around a family gathering.
Jack, then 12, flew over the handlebars and slammed headfirst into a tree.
“I was wearing a helmet at the time, but apparently my brain was like a jelly in a box that had been really badly shaken, and I was going to be in hospital for some ti...
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- February 20, 2025
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As closures of rural hospitals across the United States continue, more Americans are facing hour-plus drives to reach surgical centers, two new reports find.
By 2020, data show, 99 million Americans already had trouble finding "timely, high-quality and affordable surgical care," according to a news release from the University of Michigan.
The situation is most dire for people ...
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- February 12, 2025
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The tragic early death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry from a ketamine overdose in 2023 has swung a spotlight on the dangers of unsupervised use of the potent anesthetic.
Now, America's leading group representing anesthesiologists is issuing new guidelines on proper use of the drug.
Keta...
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- February 12, 2025
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An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down.
"I'm superwoman," Towana Looney, 53, told The Associated Press as she marked day 61 on Saturday.
Looney’s transplant, performed at NYU Langone Health on Nov. 25, represents a major step forward in the quest...
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- January 27, 2025
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Patients can improve their odds for a successful surgery by actively preparing for the procedure through diet and exercise, a tactic called “prehabilitation,” a new evidence review shows.
Surgical patients who prehabbed had fewer complications and shorter hospital sta...
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- January 24, 2025
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Rural areas are facing an increasing shortage of eye surgeons who can treat conditions like cataracts, glaucoma and detached retinas, a new study says.
More than 17% of patients who need an ophthalmic surgeon live in rural America, but fewer than 6% of eye su...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- January 22, 2025
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Check out your surgeon as you’re wheeled into the operating room. Do they seem tense, on edge, or stressed out?
If so, that could be good news for you, a new study says.
The patients of stressed surgeons tend to suffer fewer major complications from surgery, according to findings of new study published in
A 53-year-old woman from Alabama has a new lease on life after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig, living healthily with the new organ for over a month, her New York City doctors announced Tuesday.
Towana Looney's road to kidney failure began with the ultimate gift: In 1999, she donated one of her kidneys to her ailing mother.
Canadian Rowan Ladd scratched her head when doctors said they might bank a blood donation from her at the start of her 2022 liver surgery, but she figured it couldn’t hurt.
“You’re told before surgery that the liver is so full of blood vessels that there are risks of major bleeding,” Ladd, a 46-year-old Ottawa mother of two, said in a news release. “I thought...
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- December 11, 2024
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After facing weeks of pushback, health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said Thursday it will not go ahead with a policy change that would have limited reimbursements for anesthesia during medical procedures.
If the proposed policy had taken effect, it would have only reimbursed doctors based on time limits set by the insurer.
When the change was first announced last month, t...
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- December 6, 2024
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For decades, surgery to remove an inflamed appendix has been a rite of childhood for many.
But a new study says treating appendicitis with antibiotics, rather than surgery, is the best way to address most cases.
Using antibiotics to treat uncomplicated cases of appendicitis resulted in less pain and fewer days off from school for kids, researchers report in the
A 57-year-old woman with COPD has received the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant.
The breakthrough surgery was performed in October at NYU Langone Health in New York City by Dr. Stephan...
After a hit to the head or a fall, people, especially seniors, can develop a dangerous pooling of blood and fluid between the brain's surface and it's protective covering, the dura.
These "subdural hematomas" typically require surgery to fix, but a new study suggests a better approach, one that makes sure repeat surgeries aren't required.
That's important, because “even after...
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- November 21, 2024
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More than a third of surgical patients develop complications as a result of their procedure, a new study shows.
About 38% of adult patients suffer an adverse event during or following their surgery, researchers reported Nov. 13 in the BMJ.
Nearly half of these complications result in serious, life-threatening or ...
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- November 14, 2024
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Seniors who’ve had a heart attack should probably delay any elective surgeries for three to six months, a new study advises.
People aged 67 and older face double to triple the risk of life-threatening complications -- like a stroke or a second heart attack -- if they m...
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- November 1, 2024
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In a finding that challenges conventional thinking on when people with failing heart valves but no symptoms should get surgery, a new study suggests these patients would fare far better if they had their valves replaced right away with a minimally invasive procedure.
The results, published this week in the New England ...
A new guidance issued jointly by groups representing U.S. surgeons, anesthesiologists and gastroenterologists affirms that most people taking popular GLP-1 weight-loss meds can keep taking them in the weeks before a surgery.
Concerns had arisen because the drugs, which include semaglutide (Ozempic...
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- October 31, 2024
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Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds.
The scans might accurately predict which patients have a higher odds for cancer recurrence and require surgery plus chemotherapy, and which can forgo surgery and opt for a "watch-and-wait" strategy instead.
“After undergoing chemothera...
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- October 23, 2024
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Heart bypass operations have gotten safer, but not everyone is benefiting equally: New data shows that Black patients face a 22% higher odds of dying in the hospital after their surgeries.
“We found Black patients who have coronary artery bypass surgery experience higher rates of severe postoperative complications, including death and cardiac arrest," said study lead author
Cataract surgery could restore good vision to older people and by doing so cut their odds for potentially life-threatening falls, a new study finds.
Folks who got the surgery had significantly lower odds for bone fractures and brain hemorrhages linked to falling compared to people with cataracts who didn't get the operation, researchers report.
The benefits were even greater than ex...
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- Ernie Mundell
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- October 22, 2024
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The repeated fasting required for multiple surgeries in a row can slow a patient’s recovery and increase the risk of death, a new study warns.
Surgical patients are asked to not eat after midnight prior to their procedure, to reduce the risk that they&r...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- October 21, 2024
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