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At Rady Children’s Hospital officials say about four surgeries are being postponed every day. At UC San Diego Health, 27 surgeries were postponed Wednesday alone. And at Scripps Health officials say they too have had to postpone surgeries due to staffing shortages.

Following an apparent accident in the water, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is sharing a “successful” update after undergoing surgery.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since surgery a week earlier

The Vatican says Pope Francis has “reacted well” to planned intestinal surgery at a Rome hospital

Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...

22-year-old Joe DiMeo of New Jersey is the world’s first successful face and double-hand transplant.

A California lawmaker wants to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children until they are at least 6-years-old

When Ervina and Prefina were born two years ago, they were conjoined at the skull, back-to-back. For most of their lives, they never saw the other’s face except when they looked at their reflections in a mirror. In early June, the twins finally had the chance to gaze directly at each other after 30 doctors and nurses separated them during...

A new U.S. study shows Black children die more often after common surgeries than whites.

Governor Gavin Newsom gave the all-clear for hospitals to resume essential elective surgeries, but what does this mean for surgeons? According to some surgeons, they’re a lot more susceptible to catching the coronavirus and are placing additional measures to keep them and their patients safe. Dr. Michael McHale serves as the surgical director of perioperative services at UC San...

As COVID-19 has spread across the country in recent months, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, nonemergency procedures that are scheduled in advance. Cosmetic surgery, hernia repair and cancer operations are among the wide range of elective surgeries that come with varying degrees of complexity and urgency, NBC News reports. The American Hospital Association published a road map to resuming elective surgeries on April...

Sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands… While practicing social distancing and being in quarantine, Dax Shepard decided to remove the pin from his own broken arm. While it’s unclear how the 45-year-old actor broke his hand, it appears he’s not afraid to repair it. Trolling her husband over his pin removal, Kristen Bell cheekily captioned...

A doctor reported over 800 cases to go through in one hospital alone, with medical professionals conducting rigorous tests to prevent coronavirus contamination. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2020.

A tiny baby born four months early and weighing just 15-ounces has already made a name for herself at the San Diego Blood Bank.

More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said Wednesday that the Carters “look forward to enjoying Thanksgiving at home in Plains, where he will continue to recover.”

A student killed a fellow student and wounded three more in a shooting Thursday at a college in Russia before taking his own life, police said. Russia’s state Investigative Committee said the 19-year-old shooter brought a hunting rifle to class in Blagoveshchensk near the border with China and opened fire on students, killing one and severely injuring three more. It...

A Virginia doctor allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied a patient’s fallopian tubes without consent, federal authorities said in court documents, NBC News reported. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested Friday and charged with health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators, according to papers filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake,...

Miley Cyrus is recovering after undergoing vocal cord surgery and will have to rest her voice for a while. The 26-year-old singer’s condition was first reported by People on Saturday. E! News has confirmed that she has left a hospital and is recovering from vocal cord surgery. People said that doctors discovered damage in her vocal cords, which she had...