A complete intestinal obstruction is a medical emergency that often requires surgery. For a partial bowel obstruction, your doctor may recommend waiting to see if it will clear on its own without ...

Britain is in the grip of a gastric flu outbreak which has spread from hospitals in Scotland to the south coast, health chiefs said today. Levels of the virus, which has already affected 12 ...

Comparison of laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma involving specific sites: A ...

Here’s the latest traffic and travel news from around Northern Ireland. The Glenavy Road, Lisburn is closed to all traffic in the vicinity of the junction with Whinney Hill, after a schoolbus ...

Here’s the latest traffic and travel news from around Northern Ireland. Cunningham Way in Dungannon is currently closed due to an ongoing fire. Drivers are asked to avoid the area and seek ...

Expert Rev Resp Med. 2007;1(1):139-147. Daud and colleagues found that among 334 lung-transplant recipients, 130 (39%) had grade 1 primary graft dysfunction, 69 (20%) had grade 2, and 70 (21%) had ...

Surgical treatment may be the most effective for people who have OSA due to a severe, correctable, obstruction of the upper airway. Surgical evaluation begins with a physical exam to check on the ...

Three main mechanisms of obstruction due to congenital bands were identified: direct compression of the adjacent bowel by the band, entrapment of a bowel loop between the band and mesentery, and ...

causing partial obstruction to cranial venous outflow. This has led some investigators to propose intracranial venous hypertension as the final common pathway in the aetiology of IIH. 10 These studies ...