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Any Massachusetts hospitals facing limited capacity will soon be required to reduce nonessential procedures.

Starting next week, any Massachusetts hospital or hospital system with limited capacity will have to reduce previously scheduled procedures deemed non-essential and non-urgent, the Baker administration announced Tuesday. The guidance, which goes into effect Monday, is meant to preserve hospital capacity amid staffing shortages amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “The current strain on hospital capacity is due to longer than…

Following an apparent accident in the water, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is sharing a “successful” update after undergoing surgery.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since surgery a week earlier

The Vatican says Pope Francis has “reacted well” to planned intestinal surgery at a Rome hospital

As hospitals across Massachusetts experience a severe blood shortage, the Red Cross is putting out an urgent call for donations. Without an increase in supply, they say, some surgeries and procedures will have to be postponed.

Hospitals in Massachusetts are having to delay or reschedule surgeries because of a severe blood shortage.

Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is out for the rest of the 2020-21 season with a wrist injury that requires surgery, the team said Monday.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

A family is traveling to Boston Children’s Hospital hoping to help a little girl fighting off a rare and life-threatening condition. Seen-year-old Liza Scott started business to help cover the cost of her expensive treatment.

After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...

A Worcester man had to undergo emergency surgery after accidentally swallowing one of his AirPods while sleeping.

22-year-old Joe DiMeo of New Jersey is the world’s first successful face and double-hand transplant.

When Ervina and Prefina were born two years ago, they were conjoined at the skull, back-to-back. For most of their lives, they never saw the other’s face except when they looked at their reflections in a mirror. In early June, the twins finally had the chance to gaze directly at each other after 30 doctors and nurses separated them during...

A new U.S. study shows Black children die more often after common surgeries than whites.

As COVID-19 has spread across the country in recent months, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, nonemergency procedures that are scheduled in advance. Cosmetic surgery, hernia repair and cancer operations are among the wide range of elective surgeries that come with varying degrees of complexity and urgency, NBC News reports. The American Hospital Association published a road map to resuming elective surgeries on April...

Sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands… While practicing social distancing and being in quarantine, Dax Shepard decided to remove the pin from his own broken arm. While it’s unclear how the 45-year-old actor broke his hand, it appears he’s not afraid to repair it. Trolling her husband over his pin removal, Kristen Bell cheekily captioned...

More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.

The Patriots need a kicker for this Sunday’s game. Again. NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport tweeted that recently added Nick Folk underwent an appendectomy that will preven him from playing Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans.

Nine Patriots players were absent or limited in practice due to illness Wednesday.