Surgeon James McCaslin, operating on Cramlington man Stephen Laurie, became the first in Europe to fit a stent that will help ...

Starting with fibers taken from pig tissue, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed dissolving sutures that can be loaded with molecular sensors or medication.

You may have heard of dissolving stitches. Perhaps you’ve even gotten them yourself. Still, many people have yet to hear about the new dissolving heart technology. In 2016 the FDA approved the most ...

Now you see it, now you don't. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said ...

A substance long used to make dissolvable stitches now can help plump up faces left sunken and gaunt by the AIDS virus, the Food and Drug Administration ruled Tuesday. The FDA’s approval of Sculptra, ...

LAKELAND — Lakeland Regional Health has sent certified letters to at least a dozen women in the past couple of weeks notifying them of a potential issues related to hysterectomies performed, in some ...