Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications includes infections, particularly those that occur at the surgical site. These ...

In an effort to help make world health outcomes more equitable, an Iowa high school student has developed organic, color-changing sutures that warn of infection as soon as it appears. High school ...

Among the millions of people who have surgery each year, up to 3% will end up with infections around their stitches -- but that risk may soon decline. Last month the Food and Drug Administration ...

Using antimicrobial sutures to secure the shunt and close the wound significantly reduces the number of shunt infections arising during the first six months after surgery. Children born with ...

Browne KM, Murphy O, Clover AJP. Should we advise patients with sutures not to swim? BMJ 2014;348:g3171. (23 May.) Katz S, Izhar M, Mirelman D. Bacterial adherence to surgical sutures. A possible ...

The evidence base for Plus Sutures is large, of relatively high quality and is likely to be generalisable to the NHS. Some of the individual studies did not show a significant reduction in surgical ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, ...

At the military hospital in Zaporizhzhia, surgeons have been working around the clock to tend those wounded in the war - Copyright POOL/AFP Anthony Kwan At the ...

Children born with hydrocephalus, or “water on the brain,” must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure. While shunts do their job well, the rate of ...

Although the news has been awash with vaccine updates as of late, there’s another medical technology worth a brief discussion: beet juice. Iowa high schooler Dasia Taylor used the vegetable juice to ...

NICE commissioned an external assessment centre (EAC) to review the evidence submitted by the company. This section summarises that review. Full details of all the evidence are in the project ...

Use of barbed suture for superficial closure after total knee arthroplasty should be avoided due to increased rates of infection and overall closure-related complications, according to study results.