Canadian cardiologist Dr. Neil Fam completed the world’s first mitral regurgitation repair surgery through the jugular vein, giving an 86-year-old woman with heart failure and few other options a new ...

Jugular vein aneurysm is a rare morphologic entity. This report describes a case of an asymptomatic internal jugular vein aneurysm that presented as an enlarging mass in the neck. Diagnosis was ...

For the first time, doctors are preparing to test a brain-computer interface that can be implanted onto a human brain, no open surgery required. The Stentrode, a neural implant that can let paralyzed ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.View full profile Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. Surgeries can sometimes reveal ...

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has offered its "sincerest apologies" to the family of a woman who died after her jugular vein was torn during a routine surgical procedure two years ago. Teresa ...

Background A 29-year-old woman presented with chest pressure, progressive dyspnea, fatigue, and swelling of her face, neck and upper extremities. Four days earlier, she had undergone a procedure for ...

The Health Service Executive today offered its “sincerest apologies” to the family of a woman who died after her jugular vein was torn during a routine surgical procedure two years ago. Teresa Lyons’ ...

TRENTON, N.J. --The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday again warned patients and doctors to avoid a risky, experimental procedure promoted as a treatment for several nervous system disorders, ...

THE Health Service Executive has offered its “sincerest apologies” to the loved-ones of a woman who died after her jugular vein was torn during a routine surgical procedure two years ago. On the day ...

Patients continue to clamor for unproved procedure dubbed liberation therapy. April 19, 2011— -- Almost six years after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Sharon Richardson heard that ...