When asked “what is your surgical site infection rate?” one will get an answer that is almost certainly removed from reality. As a career academic surgeon, it has always been interesting to me how ...

The body is filled with all kinds of proteins that make up your tissues, muscles, and even blood. Over time or with certain injuries, some of these proteins can build up in places. When cataracts form ...

Gov. JB Pritzker experienced a minor complication following a recent urology procedure but has since returned to work, ...

Whether it's through word of mouth or searching online, finding the best surgeon can often be a glorified guessing game for many patients. There has never been a way to see doctors' rates of ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to cause many and various potential difficulties, from common issues like fatigue and vision problems to less common ones like breathing problems and hearing loss.

Patients have another searchable online tool for choosing a physician, this one reporting complication rates for eight elective surgical procedures by individual physician. ProPublica, an ...

Skin irritations, stoma retractions, prolapse, or blockage are some of the more common complications of a colostomy. About 150,000 new colostomies or ileostomies are performed each year in the United ...

Coming up with a definition of a grand complication timepiece is almost as difficult as building one but several experts in the refined and complex discipline of haute horlogerie made such an attempt ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...