Among the millions of people who have surgery each year, up to 3% will end up with infections around their stitches -- but that risk may soon decline. Last month the Food and Drug Administration ...

At the military hospital in Zaporizhzhia, surgeons have been working around the clock to tend those wounded in the war - Copyright POOL/AFP Anthony Kwan At the ...

Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications includes infections, particularly those that occur at the surgical site. These ...

In an effort to help make world health outcomes more equitable, an Iowa high school student has developed organic, color-changing sutures that warn of infection as soon as it appears. High school ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Every surgical procedure, from routine appendectomies to complex organ transplants, relies on a technology that has remained fundamentally unchanged for thousands of years: the ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...

Browne KM, Murphy O, Clover AJP. Should we advise patients with sutures not to swim? BMJ 2014;348:g3171. (23 May.) Katz S, Izhar M, Mirelman D. Bacterial adherence to surgical sutures. A possible ...

A major clinical trial looking at surgery for women at risk of miscarriage and stillbirth have found that a type of wire commonly used reduces risk of infection. Women at risk of pregnancy loss who ...

Children born with hydrocephalus, or “water on the brain,” must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know firsthand how important it is to keep the wound from getting infected. There are special conductive sutures that sense changes in wound status via electrical ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...