In a longitudinal case study, researchers found that higher inflammation levels may predict poor outcomes following bariatric surgery. According to a study published in Psychological Medicine, ...

Needing surgery is life-changing—be it elective surgery, where you can schedule your procedure in advance, or emergency surgery due to an urgent medical issue. Of course, surgery involves physical ...

For those whose weight has climbed steadily after years of failing on traditional diets, gastric surgery to reduce the size of the stomach seems almost inevitable. If the stomach pouch is made so ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Depression correlated with poorer postoperative outcomes among adults who underwent surgery for abdominal cancer ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger age, symptoms of depression, and severe pain during the immediate post-operative period are significant predictors of severe pain during recovery from radical ...

Doctors have known for some time that depression contributes to heart disease. Now it seems heart surgery can contribute to depression as well. Just weeks after publisher Philip Merrill apparently ...

Cancer patients with depression are at an increased risk of post-operative morbidity and readmission, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. For the study, 98 patients ...

Ketamine was no more effective than placebo in reducing depressive symptoms in surgical patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), results of a new study, which contradict prior research, suggest.