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North Texas hospital officials say they have avoided canceling or delaying procedures after a crucial IV fluid manufacturing plant was damaged in Hurricane Helene.

Surgeon Dr. Daniel Costa, Associate Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, tells KERA’s Sam Baker the new procedure uses ultrasound to destroy tumors in the prostate.

Elective surgeries on the knees, hips, shoulders, spine, and wrist are very common today. Also, risky and costly.But a study recently published in the British Medical Journal concluded outcomes of some of those surgeries may not be significantly better than with nonsurgical care.

Cardiogenic shock occurs when your heart suddenly fails to pump enough blood for your vital organs. It’s the leading cause of death in heart attack patients.

From Texas Standard: You’ve heard of minimally invasive surgery – it’s often called laparoscopic surgery. Instead of making a large cut in a patient,...

Technology continues to transform operating rooms, and community colleges in North Texas that train surgical technologists must evolve, too. For students…

President Trump called the opioid crisis in the United States a national emergency last week, and Texas has joined a coalition of states to investigate…

At one point, a heart surgical procedure required opening your chest. Technology’s now made it possible in some cases to avoid open heart surgery in favor…

The Forest Park Medical Center campuses were supposed to be more like spas than hospitals. And they were — from the hand cut stone and sculptures to the…

When Caitlyn Jenner shared her story of transition from male to female she put the transgender community in the spotlight. She also focused attention on a…

144,000 Texans sustain a traumatic brain injury each year—that’s one every 4 minutes. For those who survive there’s often cognitive and psychological…

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports a 49 percent increase between 2013 and last year in what’s known as vaginal rejuvenation…