Al Roker shared Friday on “Today” that he will undergo surgery following a prostate cancer diagnosis. The beloved weatherman said it was discovered after a routine medical checkup in September. “It’s a good news-bad news kind of thing,” he said. “Good news is we caught it early. Not great news is that it’s a little […]
A young woman in the United States whose lungs were ravaged by Covid-19 is alive and able to talk to her family thanks to a double lung transplant, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced on Thursday. The surgery was performed on Friday last week and the patient is now recovering. “The patient is in stable […]
In the first significant rollback of restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that hospitals in the Southland and across the state can resume scheduled surgical procedures that were suspended to ensure the availability of hospital beds and physicians to treat virus patients. “We are in a position today to […]
(WBZ) — Gloucester grandmother Nettie Williams helped get her grandchildren ready to go out for dinner Thursday night, to celebrate her 54th birthday. “You just wouldn’t think that I’ve just had a kidney transplant,” she said with a big smile. She did, though, ending two years of kidney failure and dialysis caused by diabetes – with […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench on Monday after missing a day at the court last week due to a stomach bug. Ginsburg, 86, took her seat wearing one of her lace collars. The justices were there to grant new admissions to the bar, not to hear arguments. Justice Stephen Breyer was not present […]
A Virginia doctor has been arrested after he was accused of performing hysterectomies and other unnecessary medical procedures on patients without their consent, according to a federal affidavit. The affidavit said an investigation into Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was launched in September 2018 after the FBI received a tip from a hospital employee that the doctor may […]
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the world’s first kidney transplant using a single-port robot, according to a release from the Cleveland Clinic. The single-port kidney transplant enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through one small abdominal incision. Dr. Jihad Kaouk and his team were the first hospital in […]
