A six-year study tracking 560 adults over 70 found that nearly one in seven experienced sharp, progressive memory and ...

Think surgery automatically means spending days in hospital? Not always. Doctors explain how modern techniques are making day ...

New research shows major surgery speeds up memory decline in 15% of adults over 70. Learn the key risk factors and how to ...

People having elective surgery on Fridays are no more likely to die than people who undergo procedures any other weekday, a large Canadian study suggests. Prior studies have shown a higher risk of ...

As we brace for summer, doctors say now may be the time to tackle that elective surgery you have been putting off. As part of ...

For the last few years, Linda Rohn, 72, of Simi Valley, Calif., has known that she needed to have a total knee replacement for her arthritic right knee. But as her pain got worse, the coronavirus ...

Considering a knee replacement? Plastic surgery? With a pandemic of new coronavirus cases looming, it's probably time to postpone elective surgery if you can, a surgeons' group says. Therefore, "each ...

Kai Giesen's wisdom teeth surgery was supposed to happen in March. Then it got pushed to mid-May. Then, June. When Giesen, 26, finally arrived for the surgery, he was told to wait in his car until he ...

As part of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all elective surgeries across Australia have been temporarily cancelled. Elective surgery is non-urgent surgery people choose (elect) to ...

Older adults who have serious illness before undergoing elective surgery had hospital stays twice as long as similarly aged counterparts; were twice as likely to return to the hospital or the ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced some elective surgery can start again in private hospitals, as it becomes clear the health system will cope with the additional coronavirus ...