Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans.

A pilot study in three hospitals showed how to achieve success in reducing unnecessary blood tests, scans and other tests in low-risk patients having straightforward operations; now, the effort is ...

A customized, team-based strategy significantly reduced unnecessary pre-operative testing for common elective surgeries, according to a new study led ...

The new test, called the risk of ovarian cancer algorithm (Roca), calculates a woman’s individual risk based on factors such ...

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Biologist Steve Easterly informed me CWD (chronic wasting disease) ...

Heart worries can feel heavy on your mind. You might think bypass surgery is inevitable when your heart starts showing signs ...

More than 100,000 knee- and hip-replacement surgeries are performed annually in Canada with patients spending about 30 weeks on the waiting list before being treated. Typically, these weeks are spent ...

A Nova Scotia woman says her BMI has kept her from having a necessary surgery and wants change with how overweight women are ...

Older patients who primarily speak a language other than English may face a greater risk of developing delirium after surgery ...

Tiger Woods announced Saturday that he underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery. His return to golf is unclear.