Tag: surgery

With proper screening, older women can go home right away after a mastectomy.

The surgical simulation system teaches and assesses skills with 99.9% accuracy and high trainee satisfaction, offering scalable, personalized, real-time feedback and objective performance analytics.

Find out if you’re eligible for bariatric surgery based on BMI, health conditions, and emotional readiness. Take our self-assessment and join a free URMC seminar.

President Donald Trump's diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, shines a spotlight on a common condition for aging adults. What is the condition and how is it treated?

A new study identifies postoperative delirium as a common but preventable complication. Affecting 1 in 30 older adults after surgery, it significantly raises the risk of death, complications, and ...

Wilmot study shows that APPs may be the secret to a new approach to care.

UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital recently provided its 1,000th heart pump, a lifesaving therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. This milestone has been attained by only a handful of ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome often has no single cause. It tends to start gradually, so some people who experience the hand numbness and wrist pain that come with it might put off treatment. But that’s a ...

Denise Abbey felt her “life was slowly slipping away” in 2022, as her heart was failing and doctors added her to the wait list for a new heart. She feared she wouldn’t survive to raise her teen boys. ...

UR Medicine is celebrating the heroes whose donations of organs, eye, tissue and bone marrow provided second chances for critically ill patients last year. Their names will be unveiled on the Gift of ...