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A physician performed surgery at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., while infected with Clostridium difficile, according to a Daytona Beach News-Journal report. An independent ...

Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned the cosmetic surgery center to ask if she should head to the emergency room ...

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is rare but deadly. Since there is no vaccine, health experts suggest knowing the symptoms to watch for.

Late one Friday, an elderly man was admitted to the emergency department with a fractured hip from a recent fall. He had an unexplained fever of 102.5°F with a slight possibility of early upper ...

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Patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at greatly increased risk of postoperative death, a new global study published in The Lancet reveals. Researchers found that amongst ...

My CT Scan. It is of my lumbar spine and helping to prove that the surgery on 2/7 was highly successful. The left view is the Sagittal (side) view. The right image is Axial (cross section) For those ...