Every week, seemingly every day, peppered through all of our schedules are appointments labeled "preoperative evaluation." These are patients referred to us, their primary care doctors, by surgeons ...

May 14 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca said on Thursday that a late-stage trial of Imfinzi, combined with a targeted therapy prior to ...

Preparing for surgery is serious business. Exercise, nutrition and stress reduction appear to matter. Take it seriously.

The very basics of operational amplifiers. Learn comparator, inverting, and non-inverting op-amp configurations. An operational amplifier, or op amp, is a dc-coupled high-gain electronic voltage ...

In this installment of Med Op-Ed: Why nurse scientists could play a key role in public health messaging, how to make sense of noisy blood pressure (BP) readings, and calculating how much time ...

The recent bankruptcy filing by The Morrison Communities, a longstanding nonprofit that runs a 57-bed nursing home in Whitefield, is another sign that our state’s facility-based Medicaid care sector ...

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...

The two factors associated with needing larger final margins were older patient age and larger average preoperative tumor diameters, according to a single-center review of 530 primary MIS cases.

—Robotic and laparoscopic techniques showed advantages over open surgery, including fewer complications, shorter hospital stays, and lower mortality in people with renal cancer. Renal cell carcinoma ...

Most Americans don’t realize this, but their health has been at risk for years. Divisive and discriminatory ideology has crept into health education, under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity, ...

For the first time in almost 80 years, U.S. service members will no longer be mandated to receive the annual influenza vaccine. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the change on April 22, 2026.

Surgery is the only way to remove a cataract. It involves removing the damaged lens of the eye and replacing it with an artificial lens to restore vision. Cataract surgery typically takes around an ...