Fall behind? Read our previous The Good Doctor recap here. This week on The Good Doctor, Daniel Dae Kim scrubs in as new chief of surgery Jackson Han, and immediately takes issue with Shaun. Meanwhile, Melendez operates on a wealthy CEO, while Glassman tries his best to keep to himself during chemo. Han is a no-show […]
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Canadian researchers take scalpel to opioid prescribing for surgical patients
When doctors in study reduced the amount of narcotics they prescribed after outpatient surgeries and used other options, they found patients didn’t need more.
Chinese hackers go after think tanks in wave of more surgical strikes
Communists. (credit: 东方) 2016 saw a significant drop-off in cyber-espionage by China in the wake of a 2015 agreement between US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Xi Jingping. But over the course of 2017, espionage-focused breach attempts by Chinese hackers have once again been on the rise, according to researchers at CrowdStrike. Those attempts […]
Researchers create a fast-sealing surgical ‘glue’ for closing wounds
Closing up wounds typically calls for sutures or staples, but neither are able to create a complete seal. And when it comes to internal injuries that are harder to get to and wounds on organs that move a significant amount, such as lungs, treatment becomes even more difficult. Sealants offer a solution to those problems, […]
Child heart patients treated for rare surgical infection
A rare surgical-site infection caused by bacteria affected at least a dozen children who underwent cardiac surgery at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans this summer. CBC | Health News
Women Are Flying Interstate For Surgical Abortions Because One Doctor Retired
For the past 18 years Dr Michael Carrette has been one of the few doctors providing surgical abortions in Cairns. View this image › Getty When he retired late last year, after performing nearly 9000 abortions, women with unwanted pregnancies in Far North Queensland were left in the lurch. The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and […]
Surgical robot makes highly precise eye injection possible
For the first time ever, a team of eye surgeons were able to inject a thrombolytic drug directly into a patient’s retinal vein to dissolve a blood clot. It was a success despite the fact that the vein is as thin as human hair thanks to a surgical robot developed by researchers from KU Leuven, […]
