A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat: serious liver damage with no available treatment. Now, scientists have ...

A new X-ray imaging technique could transform how hospitals analyze tissue samples, potentially speeding up diagnoses and ...

New advancements to robotic surgery systems are changing how doctors perform procedures and how quickly patients recover. With the help of systems like the da Vinci 5 at St. Dominic Hospital in ...

RIKEN researchers have demonstrated a method that can detect tiny amounts of biomarkers in liquid samples and can distinguish between highly similar biomarkers. This promises to boost the versatility ...

The deployment of a best practice alert for at-risk total joint arthroplasty patients is associated with a 1-year reduction in the rate of postsurgery mild hyponatremia from 25.9% to 12.6%, a ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) that could one day serve as a universal immunotherapy for cancers that form solid tumors, including ...

When Dan Hannon, 72, received guidance to have part of a lung taken out whether nodules were cancerous or not, he wanted a second opinion to see if he would indeed live the rest of his life without a ...

A bandage-like microneedle patch can noninvasively collect immune cells and signals from the skin within minutes to hours. Early tests suggest it could transform how immune responses are monitored.