Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Working together at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, medical physicists and clinicians have developed a new procedure that treats spinal tumors and relieves patient discomfort faster that current ...

Ray Avila lay on the operating table with a messy, fist-size hole in his back, as Dr. Giancarlo Barolat burned flesh, sliced fat and peeled cartilage to make the wound even bigger. Barolat scraped ...

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I 2 S Revolution™ spinal fusion system features ECA’s sterile packed, disposable instrument set designed to simplify workflow, save cost, and maximize efficiency in both the inpatient and outpatient ...

Every year, thousands of people undergo knee replacement surgery to relive knee pain, and now, there's a procedure that uses radio frequency to block the pain.Dr. Orlando Landrum, a pain specialist ...