Imagine a patient in their late sixties who has been living with a bioprosthetic aortic valve when, due to calcium buildup, the valve begins to fail and must be replaced. Because of the patient’s ...
[This is Part 2 of the post, “Any Medical Procedure Can Traumatize Your Child.”] As covered in Part 1, any medical procedure runs the risk of becoming traumatic based on a child’s emotional experience ...
Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. The Trump administration is opening the floodgates for more surgeries to be done in outpatient ...
Teenagers and young adults are increasingly suffering knee injuries, often causing damage to the cartilage. But there's a less invasive procedure called MACI Arthro that's now being used to repair ...
Khloe Kardashian is sharing just how she got that revenge body. After Dr. Jonny Betteridge—a viral doctor with an aesthetics clinic in London—shared a video alleging that Khloe may have undergone a ...
More than two months after a 9-year-old San Diego girl died following a dental procedure, officials have released new details on her death. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the ...
Some gynecological procedures can be incredibly painful, and now medical experts are acknowledging the need for change. Women's pain has often been dismissed by doctors, an occurrence that's ...
Plastic surgery is on the rise, with some procedures becoming so common and flawlessly handled among film stars and influencers that they are often undetectable—but is there a limit to what surgeries ...
Last week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) acknowledged in writing what people with a uterus have shouted from the rooftops for years: In-office gynecological procedures ...
A child died Tuesday during a dental procedure in Edmond, according to the Edmond Police Department. Authorities said the child went into cardiac arrest either while under anesthesia or while being ...
A 9-year-old girl died hours after she went under anesthesia for a dental procedure at a San Diego office where a dentist had been investigated after a patient nearly died. The procedure took place ...