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'Sham' Surgery Can Actually Fix Our Bodies. So Why Are Some Against It?
All the patients were monitored for two years to see how many stairs they could climb before their pain got in the way. The results were clear: the sham procedure was as good for pain and function. Also, because the sham surgery is less invasive, it is less harmful. For example, there is a lower risk of infection.
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Infections after surgery are more likely due to bacteria already on your skin than from microbes in the hospital − new research
Most infection prevention guidelines center on the hospital environment rather than the patient. But the source of antibiotic-resistant microbes is often from the patient’s own body.
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Zig-Zag Cuts Heal Differently to Straight Incisions, And Now We Know Why
Not all surgical incisions are the same.
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Gynecology was built on Black women's suffering. We're still reckoning with its racist roots today
Modern gynecology was borne of experimentation of enslaved Black women, historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens explains
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The Nurse Who Introduced Gloves to the Operating Room
However obvious it seems today that protective gear can prevent infections, that hasn’t always been the case. Historically, even simple measures, such as doctors wearing gloves during surgery, were met with fierce resistance. And while doctors’ lore usually credits a famous surgeon named William Halsted with introducing gloves to the surgical theater, this is a case where the lore is wrong.
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Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals
Female patients found to have 15% more chance of a bad outcome than if procedure was performed by a woman
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'New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.
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Telesurgery has arrived, thanks to 5G
Surgery can be intimidating and hard to access at the best of times, but sky-rocketing Covid-19 cases in the U.S. have made getting non-essential surgeries not only dangerous but in some states, like Texas, completely inaccessible. Physicians in Italy might just have a solution in the form of a socially distant, 5G enabled surgery.
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Doctors put a patient into ‘suspended animation’ for first time
Researchers in the US have successfully placed a live human patient in ‘suspended animation’ for the first time, a spokesperson from the University of Maryland has confirmed. It is hoped that the technique could help surgeons to save the lives of patients with severe injuries such as stab wounds or gunshots whose hearts have stopped beating, they say.
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Frail Older Patients Struggle After Even Minor Operations
These patients are not aware of the true risks, and surgeons aren’t telling them, new research suggests.
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Scalp hair loss treatments
Scalp hair loss treatments
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China 'harvesting organs from Falun Gong prisoners'
China is murdering members of the Falun Gong spiritual group and harvesting their organs for transplant, a panel of lawyers and experts found.
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The Utter Horror of Waking Up During Anaesthetic Is More Common Than You Think
General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. But now there's evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they're under.
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I Am Thankful For Modern Medicine vs Traditional Medicine
modern medicine vs traditional medicine Traditional medicine, I am not sure how far back we want to do to compare modern medicine to. I guess I will go back to as far as my first knee surgery. I was 15 years old when I had my knee surgery on my left leg. Every time a doctor looks at my scar they exclaim it must
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Breast reconstruction surgeons in South Florida
Breast reconstruction may help restore the look and feel of the breast after a mastectomy or trauma. The rebuilding of the breast(s) can be done either immediately following a mastectomy or as a delayed procedure. Immediate versus delayed breast reconstruction depends on some of the following factors: • Physical exam by a breast reconstruction plastic surgeon • Surgical risk factors (such as smoking and being overweight) • Treatments needed after the mastectomy surgery Read more: CRS Plastic Surgery’s breast reconstruction surgeons in South Florida (click source)
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A Face Transplant Gave This 26-Year-Old a ‘Second Chance at Life’ — And Points to a Promising Future for Patients
Cameron Underwood is back to golfing, restoring cars and even sky-diving, less than three years after sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound that severely damaged his face and nearly claimed his life. Underwood, now 26, was left without the majority of his lower jaw, teeth and nose, and with significantly impaired eyesight, speech and mouth function, after his June 2016 injury.
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Patient who died during robot surgery had 99% chance of living if human operated
A heart patient who died after a robot performed complicated surgery said the man would have had a “99 per cent” chance of survival if a human had operated. The doctor leading the surgery on Stephen Pettitt, who died after a "catalogue of errors: was not trained enough to use the robot and had only practised using it on a simulator, an inquest heard. In February 2015, the father-of-three, 69, was the first person in the UK to undergo robotic mitral valve surgery.
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This May Be the Most Horrifying Surgery Story You’ve Ever Heard
How a surgeon who has been dubbed “Dr. Death” got away with harming patients for a criminally long time. By Laura Beil.
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Unprecedented Medical Case Shows How 4 People Got Cancer From Just One Organ Donor
It's a devastating case that serves as the medical warning we didn't even know we needed. An organ donor unknowingly bequeathed her undetected, malignant cancer at the same time as her organs.
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When surgeons removed one sixth of a child's brain, here's what happened
What does a child's brain that repaired itself after a full third of the right hemisphere was surgically removed, teach us about all brains?
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