Louisville's Brown Theatre, the city's oldest operating theater, is celebrating its 100th anniversary on Oct. 5. Built in 1925 by J. Graham Brown, the theater has served as a playhouse, a movie ...

In some places, the nearest safe operating room can be hours or even days away. We find out about a portable operating theatre called SurgiBox that fits in a backpack and inflates in minutes, creating ...

Calvary St Luke's Hospital in Launceston has suspended all surgical activity, after micro tears were found in the floor of one if its operating theatres. The hospital told surgeons and patients on ...

A married doctor had sex with a nurse in an operating theatre while a patient was under anaesthetic, a medical tribunal heard, foreign media reported.. Dr Suhail Anjum, 44, and the nurse were caught ...

1 National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 2 Department of Bacteriology-Virology, Teaching and Research Unit of Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

A surgical robot is being underused because of a lack of operating theatres at a Devon hospital. North Devon District Hospital installed the robot in 2023 to perform a variety of surgeries including ...

When patients and their families prepare for a surgical procedure, they typically meet the surgeon, review the risks, discuss possible outcomes and develop a recovery plan. However, they rarely ...

The Golden Jubilee University National Hospital has become the first hospital to co-design friendly and reusable theatre caps made from sustainable plant-based material as part of a research project ...

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The term "operating theatre" may seem unusual to those unfamiliar with medical history. Why is an operating room called a theatre? The answer lies in the origins of surgery, historical medical ...