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The government of Dubai on Wednesday ordered all hospitals to cancel nonessential surgeries for the next month as coronavirus infections surge to unprecedented heights in the United Arab Emirates. In a circular sent to government-run and private health centers across the emirate, Dubai’s Health Authority announced that starting Thursday medical operations “may be allowed to

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19, 2020 — An expandable artificial heart valve could save children with congenital heart disease from repeated open heart surgeries as they grow up, researchers report. Current artificial heart valves are fixed in size, meaning children need to get larger ones as they grow. Children who receive their first artificial valve before age

Salesman, 47, looks unrecognisable after getting a hair transplant, eye lift and pearly white veneers during 10-day midlife makeover in Turkey Neil Greenwood, from Oldham, originally went to get pearly white veneers fitted But tempted into getting hair transplant because he’d been balding since his 20s Also had an eye lift to reduce wrinkles and

Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, Calif., issued a statement Monday apologizing to more than 80 women suing the medical facility, saying they were accidentally recorded by motion-activated cameras installed in three separate operating rooms in an effort to catch someone who had been stealing drugs. (Google) A California hospital issued an apology to several

Encouraging doctors to COMPETE to refer more patients for cancer testing ‘could save thousands lives’ Letters telling GPs other surgeries refer more patients could spur them on Below-average referrers sent 10 per cent more patients for tests after being told Experts say UK cancer survival rates are held back because of late diagnoses Encouraging doctors

FRIDAY, Nov. 16, 2018 — Americans in states with the highest obesity rates are less likely to have weight-loss surgery, researchers say. Why? “None of the states with the five highest obesity rates crack the top 20 in terms of bariatric [weight-loss] surgery, and all but one are in the bottom 10 in terms of

A Purdue University-affiliated startup has devised a way to map arteries in the roof of a person’s mouth to help avoid complications and improve outcomes in oral surgery. Starfish Engineering LLC has developed a method using light to image arteries and lesions through the tissue in the roof of the mouth. Surgeons working in the