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Q&A: Surgeons share lessons from 100 fetoscopic spina bifida repairs
In 2019, Children's Hospital Los Angeles was part of a multi-institution collaboration that was the first in the Western U.S. to perform a completely laparoscopic repair of fetal spina bifida. Now, the team is marking a major ...
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From monkey glands to 'young blood': The long, strange history of chasing immortality through transplants
When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person "get younger" and even live to 150. The remark was widely dismissed ...
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Cataract surgery becoming an in-office procedure, experts say
Imagine popping by your eye doctor's office for a quick cataract surgery.
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy noninferior to lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer
For patients with early-stage cervical cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy alone is noninferior to lymphadenectomy with respect to disease-free survival, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in the New England Journal ...
Oct 23, 2025
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Age-related macular degeneration: Robot delivers ultra-precision injections with rapid setup times
Many surgeons admit that medical robots can now operate with greater precision than human specialists. However, the complex preparation required for robotic surgery still takes far too long. But a new robotic assistant for ...
Oct 22, 2025
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New genomic test could spare some people with melanoma from lymph node biopsy surgery
A genomic test co-developed by Mayo Clinic and SkylineDx can identify whether people with melanoma are at low or high risk for cancer in their lymph nodes—a finding that could guide treatment decisions and help many people ...
Oct 22, 2025
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Abnormal cell 'conversations' drive chronic lung-transplant rejection, research reveals
More than 50% of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical mystery.
Oct 22, 2025
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Fewer women receive lung transplants despite policy changes, study finds
New research from UCLA Health reveals that women continue to face barriers in accessing lung transplants compared to men, despite recent national policy changes aimed at making organ distribution more equitable.
Oct 22, 2025
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Guidelines released to help decide whether a breathing tube is best for a child
Oct. 22, 2025—The emotional strain on parents and other caregivers faced with deciding whether a tracheotomy is the best treatment for their child is hard to measure. The latest clinical practice guideline from the American ...
Oct 22, 2025
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Botox-like substance brings relief to Ukrainian war amputees
Botulinum toxin injections provide greater short-term relief for phantom limb pain than standard medical and surgical care among Ukrainian war amputees, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and Ukrainian physicians.
Oct 21, 2025
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MRI-based evaluation system accurately quantifies paraspinal muscle atrophy and nerve root injury severity
A noninvasive MRI technique that measures volumetric changes in paraspinal muscles could transform how doctors assess nerve damage in the cervical spine, which helps guide more precise treatment decisions and potentially ...
Oct 21, 2025
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Hip or shoulder? Location matters for bone marrow used in joint repair
Bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) is a common treatment for joint injuries. The invasive therapy involves extracting bone marrow—often from the hip—and concentrating it to preserve stem cells and growth factors, ...
Oct 20, 2025
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Minimally invasive surgery may improve outcomes in severe stroke
Minimally invasive endoscopic surgery may be an effective and safe treatment for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, the most severe type of stroke, according to results from a recent clinical trial published in JAMA ...
Oct 20, 2025
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New blood-based biomarkers could help predict bariatric surgery outcomes in teens
A USC-led team has developed an innovative way to predict blood pressure outcomes after bariatric surgery that outperforms the current standard practice. In 108 adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery, the researchers ...
Oct 20, 2025
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Open heart surgery: Clinicians don't know the best way to support patients with post-operative pain, study finds
Every year, more than 12,000 Australians undergo open heart surgery—an hours-long medical procedure during which surgeons go inside the chest cavity and repair faulty heart valves or bypass blocked cardiac arteries.
Oct 20, 2025
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Transformative eye research expands donor pool for corneal transplant patients
Many eye banks won't accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail.
Oct 20, 2025
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Disconnected cerebral hemisphere in epilepsy patients shows sleep-like state during wakefulness
Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Marcello Massimini from Universita degli Studi di Milano, ...
Oct 16, 2025
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New framework can improve the planning stage of surgical quality improvement projects
New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, researchers have developed ...
Oct 16, 2025
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Bioadhesive sponge inspired by mussels and extracellular matrix offers new way to stop internal bleeding
Uncontrolled bleeding during surgery remains one of the deadliest medical emergencies. Injuries to internal organs such as the liver or spleen are especially dangerous because bleeding is difficult to control and often life-threatening.
Oct 15, 2025
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A phonebook-sized surgical kit designed for the world's most extreme environments
In extreme environments where evacuation isn't an option and urgent care is needed, a new surgical technology steps in to fill the gap—one that can fit inside of a backpack and costs a fraction of traditional field setups.
Oct 15, 2025
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Lidocaine poisoning reports have increased since 2010
Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the last decade, but poisonings from lidocaine increased, according to two studies published online recently in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine and ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Operation performed in EU for first time: Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich's TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain‐computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down. The five‐hour procedure was the first of its kind performed in ...
Oct 15, 2025
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Galvanizing blood vessel cells to expand for organ transplantation
Scientists have discovered a method to induce human endothelial cells from a small biopsy sample to multiply in the laboratory, producing more than enough cells to replace damaged blood vessels or nourish organs for transplantation, ...
Oct 14, 2025
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Incisionless brain surgery procedure has rejuvenated over 700 lives
After having her head shaved by nurses at Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center, patient Catherine Klie's right hand shook as she tried to trace spiral circles and straight lines with a marker.
Oct 14, 2025
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Experts present digital solution to close critical gap in medical guidelines implementation
At the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) 2025 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, leading experts presented findings today from a pioneering feasibility study exploring how clinical practice ...
Oct 14, 2025
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