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A Brazilian woman born without a vagina has been the first in the world to receive a life-changing constructive treatment involving the skin of tilapia fish. Student Jucilene Marinho, 23,…
A plastic surgeon in Georgia is now being put under a microscope after allegedly putting patients under the knife with music blaring … and her body groovin’. Give Boutte THE…
By Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital broke Florida law by failing to tell regulators about two serious medical errors, according to a state report. The report,…
Dr. Rick Cunningham Both patients and surgeons worry about infections occurring after surgery. Fortunately, the risk of infection following orthopedic surgery performed in the Vail Valley is about 0.3 percent.…
By Jared Sichel The Department of Veteran Affairs isn’t just in need of more doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. Someone over there needs to call an exterminator — right now.…
A common surgical implant has generated the largest multi-district litigation since asbestos. 60 Minutes reports on one of the device’s manufacturers, Boston Scientific, now facing 48,000 lawsuits. By Scott Pelley…
By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in…
By Alex Macario, MD, MBA To understand how I ended up an anesthesiologist, you have to first understand how I ended up a physician. My dad is a doctor and…
By Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD It’s still dark out when I walk into the busy and bustling preoperative area where patients and their family members crowd into small bays. They…
By Helen Thomson Three women have received a surgery intended to improve G-spot sensitivity and increase sexual satisfaction. The procedure tightens tissue in the vaginal wall around the so-called G…
By Nicholas Rondinone If surgeons had waited any longer, a Connecticut woman’s 132-pound tumour would have killed her. But the doctors involved said the surgery earlier this year at Danbury…
By Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to…