People often worry if they'll panic or if it will hurt. Research and experience show that patients generally tolerate wide-awake surgery well.

As the threat of AMR grows, hand hygiene compliance will become critical, but it is often difficult for healthcare environments to maintain. One of the best ways to improve compliance rates is to make ...

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An exploratory study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma reports a nonsurgical treatment procedure that restored at least partial function to people whose hands were paralyzed as a result of a ...

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LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- Sixty-nine-year-old Louella Aker is the first female hand transplant recipient in Kentucky and the 10th patient to receive the procedure in Louisville. Aker, of Jeffersonville, ...

After 25 years of essential tremor, Joyce Clifton regained steady hands thanks to focused ultrasound at University of Utah Health. The incisionless treatment restored her ability to write, bake, and ...

(HealthDay News) — In what scientists say is a first, a robotic hand controlled by a patient’s own muscle and nerves appears to have restored complex hand function to a trio of amputees in Austria.

Curious about a person's age? Check out the hands. "There's this old adage that you can always tell someone's age by their hands," said Dr. Brian Pinsky, a plastic surgeon and hand surgeon with Long ...