Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two new studies out of Canada and Sweden suggest that patients operated on by female surgeons are less likely to face future ...

Patients treated by women surgeons had better outcomes, according to two population-based cohort studies from Canada and Sweden, both of which were published in JAMA Surgery. The retrospective ...

Patients who receive care from female anesthesia providers, especially non-trainees, experience fewer complications during surgery, a new study found. In this retrospective cohort study, the ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

In a new study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital that surveyed more than 80% of all surgical residents in the United States, females were more likely to suffer obstetric ...

Women comprise more than half of medical school graduates, but the number of female surgeons is low. A club at a Kansas medical school offers them support and mentorship. Women now comprise more than ...

Restore SD Plastic Surgery says it focuses on enhancing patients’ confidence through customized treatments in facial and body rejuvenation. The all-female staff at its La Jolla-area office brings “a ...

BOROUGH PARK — “The Times They Are A-Changin,” Bob Dylan penned back in 1964 — and some 60 years later, the lyric still has relevance. At Maimonides Medical Center, the lyric might have reverberated ...

According to U.S. News and World Report, the surgical profession is still a largely male-dominated field – something Maimonides Medical Center is looking to change. This coming Saturday marks National ...

It's long been known that obesity is tied to increased cancer risk, but can weight loss after bariatric surgery help lower a person's odds for the disease? The surgeries have now been around long ...