On average, nearly four million annual surgical procedures in the U.S. are completed on pediatric patients. Despite this growing figure, surgical innovation has focused heavily on technologies for ...

Six pediatric surgical procedures account for most postoperative hospital and emergency department visits, according to a research letter published in the Aug. 23/30 issue of the Journal of the ...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is increasingly performed in children, yet bile duct injury remains a serious and potentially ...

Using a laser for a rare brain surgery to treat drop seizures, which cause a child with epilepsy to suddenly fall, holds some advantages over a traditional open craniotomy, including shorter hospital ...

PeriCor, a company co-founded by mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Opfermann, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Technology that may have seemed like a page from the future 50 years ago, is now a part of the “here and now” for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Claudia Berrondo, a ...

The appointment is expected to expand access to specialized surgical care for children on Long Island’s South Shore, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Deep sedation used outside of the operating room may be a convenient alternative to general anesthesia in ...

A 21-element recovery program for children undergoing gastrointestinal surgery reduced opioid use during hospitalization by ...

Researchers found that opioid prescriptions for children who underwent one of eight common outpatient surgeries declined over a period of five years. These findings suggest that clinicians are using ...