General anesthesia, once the default choice in spine surgeries, is increasingly giving way to local and spinal anesthesia as ...

When routine procedures turned fatal at Dhaka’s leading private hospitals, the cost fell on the families — in money, in grief ...

When a child needs an upper endoscopy to help diagnose a medical problem, the most challenging part often isn’t the procedure ...

For many young patients and their parents, the most intimidating part of an upper endoscopy isn't the procedure, it's the anesthesia. To address this concern, Mercy Kids recently launched ...

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy has launched sedation-free transnasal endoscopy at its Mercy Kids GI program in St. Louis, offering pediatric patients ages 5 and older upper digestive tract evaluations ...

During a stomach biopsy an endoscope is used to take tissue samples from the digestive tract to help find the cause of symptoms. Common symptoms that might need a stomach biopsy include heartburn, ...

“Sadly, one dog did not survive,” said the Visalia Police Department in California Visalia Police Department Amanahy Becerra has been accused of animal cruelty after allegedly performing medical ...

(Ad) Dr. Johnny Mao first learned that facial plastic surgery using local anesthesia was possible by doing facial reconstruction surgery on cancer patients. “Many of these patients were in their 80s ...

State officials approved plans Wednesday for an ambulatory surgery center in Cambridge that’s aimed at reducing Mass General Brigham’s huge backlog of patients awaiting endoscopy procedures in ...

After decades of successful growth, the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) model may be turning a corner, opening up opportunity for office-based endoscopy models, according to a recent practice ...

While gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is rarely performed during pregnancy — accounting for just 0.4 percent of procedures — there are times when it is urgently needed. A new review by ...