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If residents’ long shifts endanger patients, lightening the load should reduce the risk. Trouble is, there’s no evidence it does.
Though not as sexy as genomics or the latest miracle drug, improved techniques and technology for fixing aortas are saving lots of lives.
For one woman, a scar left behind by her husband’s cancer treatment isn’t a disfigurement, but a mark of survival.
Recent procedures bring new hope to face transplant candidates.
An experimental protocol fools the immune system into accepting a new organ without debilitating drugs. Could it become routine?
As a cure for the disease, bariatric surgery is poorly understood. But it’s so effective that it’s now being done on patients who aren’t even obese.
Break a bone and pull it apart a millimeter a day. Seems crazy, but distraction osteogenesis is saving legs, arms and faces.
Operating in the womb sometimes has miraculous results. Yet many still question whether it should be done at all.
Long the stuff of science fiction, suspended animation also has a medical history—and it could soon save trauma victims.
Human joints wear out, and often replacements do too. Now innovative designs are improving longevity and function.
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