Boosting activity levels and eating healthily in the run-up to an operation helps speed up recovery times, study suggests ...

More than 20 elective surgeries were postponed at two tertiary hospitals in Hamilton and Auckland over the first two weeks of ...

Researchers said there is an ‘urgent need’ for multi-centre trials to support wider implementation of prehabilitation.

Each year, 40 million anesthetics are administered in the US—and consumers are realizing they have insurance coverage ...

As a healthcare journalist for nearly three decades, Mark Taylor knows our healthcare system is not only dysfunctional, but sickly. “There is pain, fear, anger and resentment over its many flaws,” he ...

Special to the American Press As winter weather conditions are expected to continue from early Tuesday morning through ...

Williams had a minor elective surgery on his right (i.e. throwing) wrist, ESPN’s Courtney Cronin reports. The procedure ...

CHICAGO -- Bears quarterback Caleb Williams was spotted with a cast on his right wrist while taking in the USC-Wisconsin ...

At least one elective surgery was postponed at Auckland Hospital last week and it is feared other surgeries could be affected because of a reduction in staff booking them.

An internal study of New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery's Lifestyle Medicine Program found it was effective for elective orthopedic surgery patien ...

Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in ...

Not having surgery is an option. Hip replacement surgery is an elective treatment that people can choose to have if the timing is right for them. People who have severe arthritis of the hip but ...