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Study shows that new protocols enable many patients to safely return home just one day after lung cancer surgery
Thoracic surgeons and researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Med...
Assessing unintended consequences in AI-based neurosurgical training
Virtual reality simulators can help learners improve their technical skills faster and with no risk to patients. In the fi...
Study finds firearm injuries increase in gentrified neighborhoods
Gentrification can have a ripple effect on communities. While it can improve certain conditions in typically low-income ar...
Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig's heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life—only the second patient to ever und...
US experts carry out second pig-to-human heart transplant
A 58-year-old man this week became the world's second patient to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart,...
Study finds long-term benefit of sleep apnea surgery when CPAP is not the answer
A long-term study of patients who had upper airway surgery has confirmed the benefits for better management of moderate to...
Expert training video helps surgical teams protect patients from germs in the operating room
It's a worst-case scenario in health care: A patient undergoes life-saving surgery and is sent home to recover, only to re...
Bladder transplantation in humans? Initial studies to develop technique
A series of pre-clinical studies provide important first steps in developing techniques of robotic bladder transplantation...
Researchers develop magnetically controlled guidewire robot system for vascular interventional surgery
A research group led by Prof. Xu Tiantian from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy...