Breast-conserving surgery is the preferred choice for the local treatment of early stage breast cancer. One of the main objectives of this treatment is to obtain tumour-free resection margins, as ...

Peer-reviewed research from the Clayman Thyroid Center at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery highlights a major gap in ...

Given the morbidity associated with hysterectomy, less-invasive options for treating symptomatic uterine fibroids are appealing. In this manufacturer-sponsored, prospective, multicenter trial, ...

“I use a spoon instead of a fork, so I spill less,” the patient said. “I eat sandwiches and hamburgers so I can use both hands to hold my food.” He was 73 and had suffered from essential tremor for ...

Two men in their late 403 left Iowa City’s University Hospital last week and boarded planes to carry them to their homes in the South. Each walked with a fast, short-stepped gait (“festination”) and ...

When Glenn German had brain surgery last year, he remained awake and chatted with his surgeons throughout the four-hour procedure. At the end, he got up from the table and walked out of the room. The ...

Although endometriosis sometimes shows up on an ultrasound, it doesn’t always. If a doctor thinks you have endometriosis, laparoscopic surgery is the only way to definitively diagnose it.

The first reliable technique for focusing ultrasound waves inside the skull could lead to a non-invasive treatment for brain tumours. Greg Clement and Kullervo Hynynen of Harvard Medical School in the ...

Neuroscientist Sjoerd Meijer of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has shown for the first time that targeted ...