Women with aortic aneurysms do worse than men
Although suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm is four to six times more common in men than women, mortality rates for women undergoing surgery for an...
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Journeys through Medicine
At the Science Museum, in Kensington, an exhibition ‘Journeys through Medicine: Henry Wellcome’s Legacy’ explores the history of medicine through one’s man’s obsessive collecting of...
Pinning a broken collarbone
‘Most broken collarbones are the result of a fall or a collision, so they tend to happen during contact sports such as rugby and skiing,...
Better surgery for landmine victims
Landmines are a deadly legacy of many past and present conflicts and still kill around 15-20,000 people around the world every year and maim many more....
Sculpting the transgender body
Caitlyn Jenner in the US has helped to transform attitudes to transgender people and we are seeing the results in our surgery. Many more people...
Lower GDP means poorer surgical outcomes
Results of our new research, a collaboration between our team of scientists at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham and Edinburgh, has shown that patients undergoing...
Patient outcomes
Outcomes data is information about the results of surgery that can be published and used by surgeons, patients and hospitals to ultimately improve safety and...
