Surgery

'July effect' doesn't impact heart surgery, new study finds

Checklist spurred significant reduction in post-surgical deaths, study finds

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Surgeons who mistreat co-workers put patients in danger, study finds

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Regular cannabis users can require up to two times the normal level of sedation for surgeries

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How Penn Medicine is reducing opioid use in some surgical patients

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To undergo surgery, South Jersey woman lost 90 pounds – on a bad ankle

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Unsanitary practices at New Jersey surgery center could lead to widespread HIV, hepatitis infections

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Health Insurance

IBX, Rothman enter five-year partnership to help patients save on health procedures

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What we know and don’t know about memory loss after surgery

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As surgery centers boom, patients are paying with their lives

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Infant heart surgery patients often experience hearing loss, CHOP researchers find

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CHOP finds brain remaps in child who received double hand transplant

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Jefferson study weighs pros, cons of surgery in frail heart failure patients

CHOP mini-doc examines life, surgery of infant twins formerly conjoined at head

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Scientists: New device accurately identifies cancer in seconds

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Penn neurosurgeon becomes first in Pennsylvania to perform back-saving procedure

Double-booked: When surgeons operate on two patients at once

In rare procedure, CHOP surgeons separate twin girls conjoined at the head

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Philadelphia trauma surgeons speak up about gun violence

Buchholz undergoes surgery, Eflin to start vs. Mets tonight

Wing Bowl legend was hoping for one last hurrah, but brain surgeon prevails

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Jefferson becomes first Philly hospital to enroll patients in new procedure

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Four heart surgery patients at Penn Presbyterian hospital get infections

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6ABC anchor Jim Gardner to return after weeks-long medical leave

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Zach Eflin undergoes season-ending surgery (and is likely to need another procedure, too)

Delco woman gets $6M after mixed-up X-rays led to unnecessary surgery

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Out for 2016: Phillies Morton to undergo season-ending surgery

Jefferson Hospital suspends heart transplants to redesign program

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Girl receives double lung transplant at CHOP for Christmas

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Bariatric patients complete their first Run the Bridge race

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A 'right' parents shouldn’t have: Ending circumcision, Part Two

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CHOP opens specialty care, ambulatory surgery center in Glen Mills

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Ending circumcision: The case for extending legal protections to America’s boys

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With pair of new hands, Zion Harvey discharged from CHOP

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Doctors at CHOP perform world's first bilateral hand transplant on child

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Success of GoFundMe campaign jeopardizes boy's medical benefits

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Physical therapy may be as good as surgery for common back problem

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