In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

Rina Nakano reports on the Hoag Hospital program that is providing brain surgery patients with a free trip to the salon to ...

With the inflation of prescriptions for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, physicians began seeing a startling amount of regurgitation and aspiration in ...

John Di Capua, MD, is deputy CEO and chief medical officer of North American Partners in Anesthesia Corp.; vice president of anesthesia services of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; and ...

Cancer is frightening enough to make us rush straight into treatment, often without a second thought, and understandably so.

A new clinic designed to make it easier for patients to get all the tests they need prior to surgery at Central Washington ...

A bundle of protocols including patient education, skin prep, and glove changes reduced infections at a large US surgical ...

A patient has survived for two days on externally oxygenated blood in the gap between their diseased lungs being removed and ...

• By age 80, over half of all Americans have cataracts. • Close to 4 million cataract surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. • Over 90% of patients have 20/20 vision with glasses after ...

The TGH USF Health 3D Innovations Lab is transforming how surgeons prepare for complex procedures by converting patient ...