The systematic review of all randomized controlled trials in abdominopelvic surgery is a sobering assessment of Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system, which was approved by the FDA more than 20 years ...

In people with stomach cancer, there may be little to no difference in survival and the chance of the cancer coming back whether the spleen is removed or kept during surgery to remove the stomach. We ...

Jack Georgakis was in his mid-thirties when he was diagnosed with gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer. Troubles for the hardy New Yorker, who had an active lifestyle that included hobbies such as ...

The UAB Department of Surgery’s Arnold G. Diethelm Fellowship in Abdominal Transplant Surgery has received reaccreditation through the Transplant Accreditation & Certification Council (TACC). Through ...

Stomach cancer treatments include surgery and other options to slow disease progression, such as radiation, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. Treatment is most effective when stomach ...

The number of overweight Americans resorting to stomach-shrinking surgery is rising so rapidly that health experts and insurance companies are increasingly becoming alarmed about the safety, ...

COCOA, Fla. — K9 officers not only put their lives on the line while on duty, but they are also at risk to illness and disease like their human handlers. Earlier this week, Cocoa Police Department’s ...

Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made ...