Deaths Raise Fears Over Stomach Stapling Surgery
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON     -- An obese Massachusetts woman and her 8-month-old fetus died of complications 18 months after stomach-stapling surgery, an apparent first that is leading to warnings about the risks of pregancy soon after the surgery...
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Hundreds of GP surgeries across the UK are "not fit for purpose", a study suggests.
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The chances of dying after heart surgery seem to be higher for people who are on the short side than for taller people, Argentine researchers report.
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Over two years ago, the case of a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of media attention. According to a report published this month, fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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Elderly men with abnormal red blood counts have more risk of dying after surgery, a study claims.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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A new study may help older people and their doctors decide how to treat a very common and dangerous problem Â a bulging abdominal artery threatening to burst.
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A doctor may have performed the wrong type of gastric bypass surgery on more than 50 patients at a Wilmington hospital, officials said.
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Scottish children who undergo heart operations are 'more likely' to die than in the rest of the UK, figures show.
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A review into procedures in dealing with vulnerable people begins, after a 79-year-old woman starves to death.
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The incidence of drug-resistant staph infections is climbing, affecting as many as 90,000 Americans a year and leaving them open to contracting invasive, and often fatal, diseases, a government report says.
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The risk of death to newborns delivered by voluntary Caesarean section is much higher than previously believed, a new study indicates.
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A significant number of patients who have stomach surgery to lose weight develop peripheral nerve damage, research has found. A team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota found patients complained of pain, tingling or numbness.
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An effort to ease tensions over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired -- leaving many doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested for practicing what they consider good medicine.
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Operations suspended after rise in number of deaths, NHS management says
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group will call Wednesday for hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery - a sometimes horrifying experience
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.