News on Surgery

victoria beckham lax

2010-03-16T17:20:56Z

Victoria Beckham arrives at LAX airport to catch a flight to see her husband David, who had underwent surgery to repair his torn left Achilles tendon Los Angeles, California - 15.03.10

Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery

2010-03-15T05:30:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Mini clothespin gives safer way to fix leaky valves without open-heart surgery, study finds</div><div><p>Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday.</p><p>The device is already on sale in Europe, and its maker,...

Jets coach Rex Ryan has weight-loss surgery

2010-03-14T00:15:09Z

<div id="subtitle">New York Jets coach Rex Ryan undergoes lap-band procedure to help lose weight</div><div><p>Jets coach Rex Ryan underwent a weight-loss procedure Saturday to help him fight obesity.</p><p>The husky Ryan had lap-band surgery at NYU Medical Center, and was relaxing at his h...

Mubarak's health 'satisfactory': German medical chief

2010-03-11T11:16:18Z

<div><p>Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak's health is "satisfactory" after surgery in Germany to remove a gall bladder, the head of the medical team at Heidelberg University Hospital said on Thursday.</p><p>"President Hosni Mubarak's overal...

Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section

2010-03-10T14:18:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Govt panel finds too many women denied chance to avoid repeat C-section, urges policy change</div><div><p>Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."</p><p>Fifteen years ago, nearly 3 in 10 women who had a first...

Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening

2010-03-09T00:15:30Z

<div id="subtitle">HEALTHBEAT: Jump in obesity, C-sections may be playing role in childbirth-related deaths</div><div><p>Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.</p><p>Pregnancy-related deaths like Coale's appear to hav...

Placido Domingo has cancer surgery

2010-03-08T11:16:49Z

<div><p>Renowned opera singer Placido Domingo has had surgery to remove a malignant cancer tumor in his colon, but expects to perform again as early as next month, a spokeswoman said Monday.</p><p>The surgery on Sunday in New York was a success and Domingo, 69, is expected to recover, following six weeks of rest, spokeswoman Justin Morneau marked his return for Minnesota with a two-run double and Tim Wakefield tossed two scoreless innings for Dr. Govind Srimathveeravalli, not shown, demonstrates a simulated bladder with underlying mass procedure using the Robotic Surgical Simulator at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. Inventors of a new robotic surgical simulat...

NY-made robotic surgery simulator rolled out

2010-02-25T18:31:03Z

<div id="subtitle">NY-made robotic surgery simulator going commercial at about $100K per machine</div><div><p>One of the first things Mike Ameroso asked while contemplating robotic surgery for his prostate cancer was how many surgeries his doctors had done with the robot.</p><p>He liked the idea of the robot's smaller incision and steady miniature "hands" and the promise of less pain and a quick recovery ...

Is newer prostate surgery really better than the old?

2010-02-22T13:45:20Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Robot-assisted laparoscopic, or "keyhole," surgery appears to be no better at reducing side effects than traditional "open" surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, according to new study from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Reuters Health) - Women who attempt vaginal childbirth after having several babies by cesarean section may not have a greater risk of complications than women who've had only one prior C-section, a new study suggests.</p><p>At one time, doctors believed that once a woman had a C-section, she would have to have one for all subsequent pregnancies -- mainly out...

Lee arrives at Mariners camp with bandaged foot

2010-02-22T08:58:41Z

<div id="subtitle">Cliff Lee arrives at Mariners camp with bandaged foot after surgery to remove bone spur</div><div><p>Cliff Lee has a new spring training address in Arizona, the Seattle Mariners' complex, but it likely will be another week or more before he can pitch.</p&...

Roger Ebert cannot speak, but still communicates

2010-02-22T09:17:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Film critic Roger Ebert has lost his ability to speak, but still communicates</div><div><p>Film critic Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak nearly four years ago, when he underwent a tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, after surgery for cancer in his jaw.</p><p>In an interview in the new issue...

news bill clinton surgery

2010-02-12T17:32:36Z

Police stand guard outside the Milstein Hospital where the former U.S. President Bill Clinton has recently undergone heart surgery New York, USA - 11.02.10

ANGIOPLASTY

2010-02-12T00:15:32Z

Graphic shows how an angioplasty procedure is performed

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Surgery better than diet, exercise in obese teens

2010-02-22T10:28:33Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Severely obese teens who had surgery to limit what they could eat lost more weight and enjoyed more health benefits than those who did an intensive lifestyle program, researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>They said 21 of 25 severely obese teens aged 14 to 18 who underwent a form of gastric banding lost mor...

Double hand transplant patient leaves Pa. hospital

2010-02-22T10:36:50Z

<div id="subtitle">1st US double hand transplant patient leaves Pa. hospital after rejection symptoms clear</div><div><p>The nation's first double hand transplant recipient has left a Pittsburgh hospital after medicine cleared up a rash that signaled he might be rejecting his new hands.</p><p>Reuters Health) - Women who have a hysterectomy for non-cancerous conditions seem to fare similarly well in terms of psychological well-being whether they have all or part of the uterus removed, a new study finds.</p><p>Studies have shown that rates of partial hysterectomies have been on the rise since the 1990s, in the