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Subarachnoid thrombolysis is where a clot-dissolving drug is administered to clear the blood after subarachnoid haemorrhage. This may improve outcomes since blood in the subarachnoid space is ...

Ingrown nail surgery is the removal of a nail, or a portion of a nail, that is covered by skin and causing pain and/or infection. It may also involve the destruction of the nail bed itself. This may ...

A robot-guided “smart biopsy” technique has been tested on UK patients for the first time, with researchers hopeful it could spell the end of invasive procedures for those with suspected cancer.

A young woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel ... in the hope it could offer a potential cure for her deadly disease. The procedure has been a huge ...

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Several factors influence the choice of antibiotics and the decision concerning if or when to switch from intravenous to oral antibiotics in the course of managing patients with community-acquired ...

Most information regarding putative sensitivity reactions to endovascular, cardiovascular, orthopedic, and dental metal implants are based either on anecdotal case reports or on data gathered from ...

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The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the medicine sotatercept (Winrevair) to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Sotatercept is used, in combination ...

A victory hailed as “one of Moscow’s biggest defeats” by Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, was not won on the battlefield. This week Ukraine closed off the last route allowing ...