Having a female doctor could lower the risk of death or major health issues after surgery or hospitalization, studies have shown over and over. The latest evidence, published Wednesday in the British ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

Women comprise more than half of medical school graduates, but the number of female surgeons is low. A club at a Kansas medical school offers them support and mentorship. Women now comprise more than ...

When Ilene Wong was a urology resident at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, she found herself sidelined in favor of her fellow resident — a white man — on at least one occasion when it came to major ...

Women surgeons in-training who are surrounded by negative stereotypes have worse psychological health than those who do not perceive stereotypes in their environment, according to a study in the ...

The age-old practice of applying antiseptic to skin prior to surgery on closed fractures could soon shift after a study, published Feb. 1, in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that iodine in ...

In August 2023, after spending a decade plus dreading the arrival of my periods so painful I'd routinely spend days in bed guzzling Nurofen, I sat in a gynaecologist's office as he explained that he ...

Researchers conducted a review of surgical skin prep agents to conclude which agent was most cost-effective and superior in preventing surgical site infections, according to a study published in the ...

The plaintiff has lost nearly all of her vision, a process that started after a surgical preparation leaked into her eyes during neck surgery in 2014. James Poe, The Poe Law Firm, Atlanta. (Courtesy ...

BOROUGH PARK — “The Times They Are A-Changin,” Bob Dylan penned back in 1964 — and some 60 years later, the lyric still has relevance. At Maimonides Medical Center, the lyric might have reverberated ...