Studies: Surgery no better for sciatica
305095
Two big government-funded studies on back surgery for painful herniated disks show no clear-cut reason to choose an operation over other treatment.
352631
An early analysis of data on the Prestige spinal disk shows it works at least as well as spinal fusion and has similar risks.
38936
Routine physiotherapy seems to be no  better than expert advice at relieving mild lower back pain,  British researchers said on Friday.
646692
NEW YORK  - The risk of urge and stress incontinence is not increased with total hysterectomy, regardless of surgical approach, according to a new study.
479381
Needing a wheelchair isn't always the biggest complaint of people left paralyzed by spinal cord injury &#151; it's also the loss of bladder control. On Monday, Michigan doctors began a unique experiment to see if rerouting patients' nerves just might fix that problem.
469236
A trial shows that a less invasive procedure for repairing aortic aneurysm is linked to a lower rate of short-term mortality than conventional surgery.
304773
Hundreds of GP surgeries across the UK are "not fit for purpose", a study suggests.
440919
Chronic back pain can shrink the gray matter in your brain by as much as 11 percent in one year, the same amount of brain density that&#39;s lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, says a Northwestern University study.
466214
A new study says there's no excuse not to get a bone density scan
182690
Enhancing a natural pain-filtering mechanism in the spine helped relieve chronic pain in mice without the unwanted side effects of current pain relievers, Swiss researchers said on Wednesday.
50706
One of the biggest fears for men undergoing prostate surgery is impotence, but research doesnât do much to clarify risk.
681289
NEW YORK  - For people with lower back  pain, a set of five criteria seem to predict whether spinal  manipulation is likely to help them, according to a new study.
707255
(National) Dec. 30, 2004 - Surgery might seem like an extreme measure for handling migraines, but a new study may have migraine sufferers rethinking this.
254368
Acupuncture is more effective at treating back pain than conventional therapies, research suggests.
429084
Adolescents are less likely to  suffer complications from obesity surgery than adults, a  reassuring finding because little had been known about the risk  facing the small but growing number of teens who opt for it,  researchers said on Thursday.
570409
NEW YORK  - In the first year after "keyhole" surgery to remove a portion of a damaged meniscus, cartilage tissue that provides structural integrity to the knee, women have poorer rates of recovery than men do in terms of knee pain and knee function, investigators report.
149200
Even when the spine is damaged almost to paralysis, the PEG solution prevented the cells from rupturing irrevocably. &quot;Nearly 75 percent of the dogs we treated with PEG were able to resume a normal life,&quot; said Richard Borgens of Purdue.