In an effort to further improve the quality of patient care in government hospitals, the British government is requiring all National Health Service medical facilities to publish their death rates for 50 conditions.

Death rates of heart bypass surgery patients at NHS hospitals are already available online as well as survival chances by cardiologist. By summer the list will expand to include hip and knee replacement operations, throat surgeries and abdomen blood vessel operations

A new implantable medical device called VBLOCTM vagal blocking therapy is the latest answer to gastric bypass surgery and other weight loss measures.

Developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic researchers, the device helped patients lose an average of nearly 15 percent of their excess weight

Certain general anesthesia drugs known as the noxious type of anesthesia could actually worsen the pain following surgery, say scientists. This type of drug, which includes most general anesthetics, acts on the peripheral nervous system whereas others act on the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) instead.

Noxious anaesthesia drugs that are used commonly worldwide stimulate nerves to cause irritation long after the operation is over, a research team from Georgetown University Medical Center said

Combining a blood test with a screening questionnaire for common symptoms, like pelvic pain, difficulty eating and abdominal bloating, can catch 80 percent of ovarian cancer in its earliest, most curable stages, a new study suggests.

Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of death for women and is also known as the "silent killer" because scientists earlier could not detect any symptoms until it progressed to an advanced stage

Gastric bypass surgery, popularly known as weight loss surgery may lower the chances of getting cancer in the morbidly obese people, new findings suggest. Gastric bypass surgery decreases the incidence of cancer by more than 80 percent over the five years following the procedure, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday.

The treatment for obesity has already known to reduce heart disease and diabetes but researchers have now found that incidence of two of the most common tumors, breast and colon, were reduced by 85 percent and 70 percent respectively