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Patients of female surgeons did slightly better following surgery than those whose surgeons were male, according to a Canadian study published in a British medical journal. Researchers studied more than 100,000 patients in Ontario hospitals. CBC | Health News
The video begins with Dr. Suzanne Kilmer entering her office in Sacramento, California, a cheeky grin on her face. She takes a step to the left, a step to the right and signs her check-in pad with an exaggerated flourish. Then the beat of the soundtrack kicks in, a comedic reworking of the American Authors’ […]
A prototype “pen” technology aims to give cancer surgeons a better sense of whether they’ve removed all of a tumour while in the operating room. CBC | Health News
Virtual reality promises to be great for gamers, but it has a lot of potential to change the world in other ways. Shauna Heller saw that potential, so she quit her job at Oculus VR and became a consultant to make non-VR applications happen. And one of her projects was create a VR simulation that […]
Doctors at a hospital in England were surprised to find a mass of contact lenses in a 67-year-old patient’s eye, during what should have been routine cataract surgery. CBC | Health News
CONTACT LENSES must be used with a degree of caution, as one woman from the West Midlands has discovered after 27 were removed from one eye during routine cataract surgery Daily Express :: Health Feed
Thoracic surgeons in Nova Scotia will not be accepting any patient referrals from New Brunswick, despite comments by Horizon Health Network officials and internal memos suggesting otherwise, says the division head of thoracic surgery at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Halifax. CBC | Health News
Doctors are using hearts made with a 3D printer to practice on before operating. CBC | Health News
Is replacing a severely disfigured person’s face with one from a dead donor ready to be called regular care, a U.S. clinic asks by doing the first U.S. face transplant that’s not part of research. CBC | Health News
Surgeons who are rude to patients and others may pose a problem in the operating room, according to a study linking unprofessional doctor behaviour with infections and other surgery complications. CBC | Health News
