As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in Shelby County and throughout the Mid-South, the Baptist and Methodist hospital systems said Monday elective procedures are being postponed or ...

HOUSTON — Gov. Greg Abbott is making his first moves in rolling back reopening Thursday. He signed an order postponing all elective surgeries in four major counties – Bexar, Dallas, Harris and Travis.

Any surgery that can be delayed for at least 24 hours, but is required on medical grounds, may be regarded as elective surgery. In contrast to what its name implies, elective surgery is not cosmetic ...

Ken Wu, M.B., B.S. You are a physician leader on a senior committee that is responsible for your hospital’s Covid-19 response. For the past week, the hospital census has been over 90% of capacity, and ...

Austin Wall left work with severe pain and knew something was not right. Wall, 42, a Caterpillar dealership parts coordinator in Irving, Texas, went to an urgent care clinic nearly a month ago and was ...

In the past month, Tampa’s BayCare Health System has seen a tenfold increase in Covid-19 patients at its 14 acute care hospitals in central Florida. Expecting this surge to get worse, its executives ...

Get the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. President Trump Friday said that Americans may be able to resume elective surgeries "pretty soon" after his ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The latest data analysis from ConsumerMedical shows that elective surgeries declined by 65 percent from March to April of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, at the ...

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In times of emergency, public officials live in fear of not doing enough. But sometimes doing nothing is the right answer. And sometimes doing something makes the problem a lot worse. An example is ...