Approximately 500,000 Americans undergo back surgery to relieve their pain every year, and according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHTQ), this costs approximately $11 billion ...

PARIS — Despite some potential advantages, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) failed to meet the primary prespecified threshold for noninferiority to surgical aortic valve replacement in ...

Surgical intervention for kidney stones in patients with a history of UTIs has no significant effect on UTI relapse. Kidney stone removal surgery in patients with a history of urinary tract infections ...

WASHINGTON, DC—An early aortic valve replacement (AVR) strategy with either TAVI or surgery fails to lower the risk of all-cause mortality or unplanned aortic stenosis-related hospitalizations in ...

Back pain impacts approximately 80% of the population and the response to that has been more and more back surgeries being performed each year. However, despite more surgeries being performed, people ...

First, let’s look at what gets you there to begin with. “Doc, I pivoted, and my knee gave way.” Or “Doc, I hyperextended my knee and heard a pop.” Those, and a host of ...

Tubal sterilization is thought to be a permanent form of birth control and is the most common method of contraception nationally. But a new study led by UC San Francisco reports that tubal surgery ...

NEW YORK-- Surgery for prostate cancer was no better in saving lives than observation over a 10-year period, according to one of the first rigorous studies to compare the two approaches in American ...