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Major surgery associated with small, long term decline in brain functioning: On average, this was equivalent to less than five months of brain aging
Major surgery is associated with a small long-term decline in cognitive functioning - equivalent, on average, to less than five months of natural brain aging, finds ...
Updated: 08/07/2019 06:30P
Model Says Her Reconstructive Facial Surgery Should Serve As Warning About Distracted Driving
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — It took mere seconds for one woman's life to change forever. Nicole Sincavage was 21 when she almost died in a ...
Updated: 08/07/2019 05:58P
OC 3-Year-Old to Undergo $1 Million Heart Surgery in Boston
An Orange County toddler is in Boston on Wednesday for a complicated $1 million heart surgery that Anthem Blue Cross apparently refuses to cover.
Updated: 08/07/2019 11:50A
Being a Surgeon in a Technician's World
As much as I would like to think that I don't perpetuate the “bitter junior resident” stereotype, I am not immune. I wrote these observations in the hope of finding a ...
Updated: 08/07/2019 12:02A
Life-saving heart surgery for 3-year-old boy set to put family in enormous debt
A California family has journeyed all the way to Boston for the procedure, but his parents say their insurance company will not cover it.
Updated: 08/06/2019 07:40P
Greenville patient was back at work 4 weeks after colon cancer surgery. A new approach helped
After Kevin Poole's mother had surgery to remove two tumors from her intestines, she endured a long and difficult recovery. So when Poole faced the same ...
Updated: 08/06/2019 05:34A
For older people, surgery poses risks that aren't always made clear
Surgeons tend to focus on what the operation will try to fix instead of what may occur afterward: “We couldn't even imagine what ended up happening.”
Updated: 08/05/2019 08:30A
Rand Paul undergoes lung surgery for injury related to assault by his Kentucky neighbor
Sen. Rand Paul will be away from the Senate until September after undergoing lung surgery over the weekend related to his 2017 assault.
Updated: 08/05/2019 08:21A
How Much Plastic Surgery Has Kris Jenner Had? Here's What the Momager Admitted
Find out how much plastic surgery Kardashian-Jenner matriarch Kris Jenner has had done.
Updated: 08/04/2019 06:10P
Doctors rebuild child’s voice box in historic surgery
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A team of doctors at a children's hospital in Memphis have successfully performed the world's first voice box reconstruction and changed a ...
Updated: 08/04/2019 04:45P