When asked “what is your surgical site infection rate?” one will get an answer that is almost certainly removed from reality. As a career academic surgeon, it has always been interesting to me how ...

People facing hip and knee replacement can go online and find out how often those surgeries go awry at hospitals across the country. They can look up a hospital’s death rates for stroke and heart ...

"For me, a baby is a blessing," says Abigail Hendricks, who benefited from a new drug trial for preeclampsia. Here she is with her almost 9-month-old, Hayden (Tommy Trenchard for NPR) It was the fall ...

The body is filled with all kinds of proteins that make up your tissues, muscles, and even blood. Over time or with certain injuries, some of these proteins can build up in places. When cataracts form ...

Whether it's through word of mouth or searching online, finding the best surgeon can often be a glorified guessing game for many patients. There has never been a way to see doctors' rates of ...

Patients have another searchable online tool for choosing a physician, this one reporting complication rates for eight elective surgical procedures by individual physician. ProPublica, an ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to cause many and various potential difficulties, from common issues like fatigue and vision problems to less common ones like breathing problems and hearing loss.

Skin irritations, stoma retractions, prolapse, or blockage are some of the more common complications of a colostomy. About 150,000 new colostomies or ileostomies are performed each year in the United ...

Gov. JB Pritzker experienced a minor complication following a recent urology procedure but has since returned to work, ...

New initiative to increase patient confidence and long-term aftercare support in international dental treatmentANTALYA, ...

Coming up with a definition of a grand complication timepiece is almost as difficult as building one but several experts in the refined and complex discipline of haute horlogerie made such an attempt ...