The doctors stress that her father’s case is unique. In years of practice, they have seen only one. Etiology unknown and ...

Study finds 38% of patients in Massachusetts hospital experienced adverse events during surgery, with 26% being preventable. Learn more in BMJ article.

More than a third of surgical patients develop complications as a result of their procedure, a new study shows.

Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in ...

After all these years, why has patient safety not improved? In late 1999, the US Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” galvanized the nascent patient safety ...

The risks of a cosmetic touch-up like rhinoplasty are those of any surgical procedure, but there doesn't seem to be enough ...

Researchers have developed a robot capable of performing surgical procedures with the same skill as human doctors by training ...

Since the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study revealed the extent of unintended injuries caused by medical care, there have been transformative changes in surgical care ... are based on a randomly ...

Fourteen percent of the world's people -- more than 800 million -- now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the ...

The predominant treatment for prostate cancer, a prevalent malignancy in men, is the surgical removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy) for which biopsy is a prerequisite. However, the high ...

An evidence review on the diagnosis and treatment of tethered spinal cord, a rare condition affecting the nervous system, found that, while surgery could be a good option for symptomatic patients, ...

While the first two trials evaluated suzetrigine following abdominoplasty and bunionectomy surgeries, respectively, the third study enrolled patients with a diverse range of surgical and non ...