Following gastric bypass surgery, there is a significant decrease in the body’s capacity to absorb nutrients, including iron. A lack of iron is a frequent issue encountered by many patients post ...

A surgeon is removing brain tumours "the size of large apples" through patients' eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first. Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in ...

At least 600 patients along with their companions, and staff members, are trapped at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya as the Israeli military besieges the medical facility, the Palestinian ...

During the same period, there was a 25.6% decrease in patients undergoing metabolic bariatric surgery to treat obesity. The study is published in JAMA Network Open. "Our study provides one of the ...

As a practicing bariatric surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, he had noticed an uptick in last-minute cancellations, especially among patients who had recently started taking GLP ...

The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. In this installment, Edward Esparza, ...

Harmful diagnostic errors may occur for as many as one in every 14 hospital patients receiving medical care, a new study based on a single medical center in the U.S. has found. As many as 85 ...

These changes allowed Medicare Advantage plans to improve care at lower costs for certain critical services, such as when diabetic patients visit endocrinologists or need more frequent foot exams.

Cardiologists said that in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, it can take a week to get an angiogram, which shows blocked or narrowed blood vessels in the heart, after a patient has a heart attack.

It found patients who underwent bariatric surgery, which shrinks the stomach so that people do not want to eat as much, became more employable in the five years after the procedure. Researchers ...

BOSTON - Thousands of patients at Boston Children's Hospital, UMass Memorial and Tenet hospitals may need to find new doctors after the hospitals failed to come to an agreement with the second ...