Medical news that are highly concentrated towards surgery and surgeons
Osteoarthritis of the knee is more common in people who’ve had injuries to the ligament or the cartilage that help stabilize the knee joint, a research review suggests. Compared to people without knee injuries, individuals with injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) were more than four times as likely Read more…
Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Friday won U.S. approval for its gene therapy Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants, and priced the one-time treatment at a record $2.125 million. The Food and Drug Administration approved Zolgensma for children under the age of two Read more…
A trans woman has become the first trans person in the world to undergo successful vaginal reconstruction using fish and she’s excited with the result. The woman, who asked to be identified only as Maju, 35, had a botched gender reassignment operation in 1999. As a result, her ‘vagina’ began to shrink Read more…
Children who develop cavities and gum disease may be more likely to develop risk factors for heart attacks and strokes decades later than kids who have good oral health, a recent study suggests. Researchers did dental exams for 755 children in 1980, when they were eight years old on average, Read more…
Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants. Scientists led by Ali Erturk at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have developed a technique that uses a solvent to make organs such Read more…
Widespread beliefs about sleeping include advice on how much sleep is enough, what quality sleep means and how to achieve it, but when these pronouncements are wrong, they can do more harm than good, researchers argue. The study team gathered the most common sleep “myths” and asked sleep-science experts to Read more…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had reconvened an expert panel to consider whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. The panel, which first met on this issue in October 2018, will also give updated Read more…
Eleven million deaths worldwide in 2017 were linked to people eating poor diets high in sugar, salt and processed meat that contributed to heart disease, cancer and diabetes, a global study found. The research, published in the Lancet medical journal, found that among 195 countries studied, the proportion of diet-related Read more…
A woman in China almost died after injecting herself with liquidised fruit in a bid to be healthy. The 51-year-old suffered liver, kidney, heart and lung damage and was put into intensive care for five days. There were over 20 kinds of fruit in the intravenous injection, an employee at Read more…
Doctors have documented what they say is only the world’s second known case of “semi-identical” twins. The boy and the girl, now four, from Brisbane, in Australia, are identical on their mother’s side. But they share only a proportion of their father’s DNA – placing them, genetically, somewhere between fraternal Read more…
What if losing weight was as easy as eating certain foods and not stressing about the rest? Sadly, many dieters focus on cutting back on calories or wearing themselves thin with hours of exercise. Although you can reach your weight loss goals this way, these habits don’t exactly focus on Read more…
Jasmine Self was five months pregnant when she discovered her son’s condition Baby RJ Wilson suffers from tetra-amelia – defined as the absence of all limbs He also has severe malformations of the face, heart, skeleton and genitals A baby has been born with no arms or legs because of Read more…
Many older adults who have major surgery experience postoperative delirium in the days after their operations. Previous research has suggested that closely monitoring the brain during surgery and making adjustments to protect the brain from too much anesthesia could reduce the risk of postoperative delirium. But in a new study Read more…
E-cigarettes are almost twice as effective as nicotine replacements for helping smokers quit, a study suggests. A trial found 18% of smokers who used them to quit remained smoke-free after a year, compared with 9.9% of those using nicotine-replacement treatments. The study of 886 smokers is the first to test Read more…