Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Bariatric Surgery Program Earns National Accreditation from the American College of Surgeons

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Bariatric Surgery Program Earns National Accreditation from the American College of Surgeons ...

Heartmelting Gesture By Hospital For Two Little Sisters Needing Surgery Has Netizens ‘Crying’

An Illinois mother shared the kind and clever gesture a hospital made to help her two young daughters who needed surgery.
News Medical

Surgery reduces health care visits in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing

Surgical removal of enlarged tonsils and adenoids in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) appears to significantly reduce the frequency of medical office visits and prescription ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB physicians perform landmark procedure on first adolescent sleep apnea patient in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. ­— Eighteen-year-old Rayshawn (Ray) Barrett hadn’t slept soundly in years. His obstructive sleep apnea was so pronounced that he was regularly falling asleep in class, his grades were ...
Healio

Texas Children’s Hospital named best hospital for pediatric pulmonology, lung surgery

Texas Children’s Hospital was named the top hospital for pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery in the 2025 to 2026 rankings ...
Nature

Disconnecting part of the brain sends it into a deep sleep

Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...
Medical Dialogues

Infants with Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Severe Laryngomalacia Face Higher Surgery Risk: Study Suggests

The study emphasizes that while mild to moderate laryngomalacia is often monitored before deciding on surgery, early ...

Disconnected cerebral hemisphere in epilepsy patients shows sleep-like state during wakefulness

Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, ...