A new report from a team of researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham indicates that one of the main complications of liver transplantation can be treated very simply by allowing the transplant recipients to inhale nitric oxide (NO) during the operation in which they received their new liver.

An extensive Swedish study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has established that surgery reduces premature death in patients with severe obesity. A long-term follow up has shown that mortality is significantly lower among patients who undergo surgery than among those who do not.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Evithrom (human thrombin), a blood-clotting protein used to help control bleeding during surgery.

Israeli researchers are using pigs to test an innovative technology they say will replace cosmetic breast surgery.

Researchers believe that coronary artery bypass graft surgery outcome may be improved if the blood supply to a patient's arm is restricted temporarily. You can read about this in an article in this week's issue of The Lancet, accompanied by a Comment which explains that the implications for this clinical practice are immense.