Some women in Georgia suffer from a condition known as pelvic organ prolapse, or POP. When the muscles in their pelvic area weaken, organs like the bladder or uterus can press out of their vagina. This can result in bladder and bowel movement issues. To treat this...

When you take medicine, you expect it to make you better. You do not expect it to cause you a whole different set of problems. Yet, this is precisely what some people are claiming the drug Elmiron does. Elmiron is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Surgery is often necessary to address significant health issues. In some cases, an operation involves removing tissue, such as a tumor. Other times, the point of surgery is to fix something in the body that doesn't work as it should. In a minority of these kinds of...

You may have heard about the internal bleeding and other issues people have reported with the drug Xarelto, which led to a string of lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson. From these reports, it seems clear that no one should take the dangerous medication, and yet...

Using robotic arms, doctors can manipulate the smallest of tools and perform surgery with precision in miniscule detail and with minimal invasiveness to the patient. The use of robotic equipment in the operating room has taken a page out of science fiction and...

When you’re dealing with a life-threatening emergency, you don’t want to find out that a medical product or device is defective. Unfortunately, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released news about potentially defective EpiPens, which could fail to inject...

When people think about the link between obesity and hip pain, they often look at it in only one direction: If a person weighs too much, they can develop hip pain since they are carrying that excess weight around with them everywhere. If they lose weight, these people...

Hernia repair is one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States, with more than one million patients undergoing the procedure every year. If you are one of this unlucky group, you know firsthand the pain, discomfort and inconvenience of a hernia....