This year, The Dallas Morning News is looking into a category of surgical errors that are sometimes called "never events." ...

Physical therapy and medications are often the first treatment for shoulder injuries. However, shoulder surgery is also an option to repair joints, rotator cuffs, or dislocations, to name a few. The ...

Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

A recently published study has compared a new surgical method with the current standard treatment for primary management of cervical cancer. The paper is published in the journal eClinicalMedicine. In ...

In a study conducted in Uganda and published in JAMA Surgery, researchers from Karolinska Institutet evaluated a new surgical method for treating groin hernias in women. The method could become an ...

Moon Surgical today announced Maestro Software Version 2.7, a platform update to its Maestro surgical robotic platform.

Surgical site infections are the leading cause of unplanned readmission after surgery and can result in increases in the length of hospitalization, morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. 1 The ...

Back or spinal decompression refers to a group of treatments used to relieve pressure on spinal discs. A healthcare professional may recommend surgical and nonsurgical therapies for decompression.

Brain blood flow monitoring surgery gets quantitative for the first time with standard camera hardware. UT Austin’s SIMSI ...