In the past month, Tampa’s BayCare Health System has seen a tenfold increase in Covid-19 patients at its 14 acute care hospitals in central Florida. Expecting this surge to get worse, its executives ...

Elective sigmoid resection for patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis yielded a better quality of life and prevented recurrences compared with nonsurgical ...

Catherine Haake woke up early. Her parents had her skip breakfast, then took her to Riley Hospital for Children for a scheduled surgery to remove a bulging tangle of blood vessels on her back. By 9 ...

The cost of halting major elective surgery during the pandemic is estimated to be $22.3 billion for U.S. hospitals, according to a new study published in the Annals of Surgery. Last spring, many ...

The week before Brian Colvin was scheduled for shoulder surgery in November, he tested positive for COVID-19. What he thought at first was a head cold had morphed into shortness of breath and chest ...

Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University Waiting times for public hospital elective surgery have been in the news ahead of this year’s federal ...

You may need open vascular reconstruction surgery if you have a damaged or blocked blood vessel. It can be performed as an elective or emergency surgery. Open vascular reconstruction involves using a ...

Objectives Outward medical tourism is when people seek medical treatment in a different country to the one they live in. We ...

Outward medical tourism for surgery results in serious complications, creating challenges for the NHS and highlighting the need for better patient awareness.