We show that many surgical site infections after spinal surgery are caused by ... At face value, our results may seem intuitive – surgical wound infections come from bacteria that hang out ...

People with diabetes who were taking GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs such as tirzepatide and semaglutide had significantly lower rates of hospital readmission, wound re-opening and hematoma after surgery ...

who's facing an amputation after a post-operative infection was left to fester and the wound wasn't stitched up. (Dan Milburn/Submitted) "If I want the infection gone," an amputation is "my only ...

Team also found 29 per cent lower risk of wound re-opening within six months of surgery, and about 56 per cent lower risk of ...

A Manitoba woman had her right leg amputated after complications following a knee replacement surgery two months earlier.

Patients taking the anti-obesity drugs had about 12% lower risk of hospital re-admission within a month of surgery, compared ...

GLP-1 RA drugs help treat diabetes by weight loss, improving blood glucose levels and increasing insulin sensitivity, low ...

Waiting to operate often resulted in a horribly infected wound. Clean white pus was ... extended length increasingly led to deadly post-operative infections. Surgeons operated with dirty hands ...