By Dr. Dominique Vervoort Five billion people continue to lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical healthcare when needed. As a result, more than 17 million people die from surgically tre...
By Ala Khalid In the USA, more than half of all medical residents are women; meanwhile less than half of surgical residents are women, there is a significant amount of research focusing o...
By Camila Guetter Every day, universities and health centers across the globe lead independent successful initiatives in the field of medicine. These actions can often bring important changes to t...
By Gita Mody and Virginia Litle According to the Lancet’s Commission on Global Surgery, five billion people lack access to safe surgical care worldwide. This lack in healthcare equity exists despit...
My fourth trip to Nanakpur but my first in a hospital setting. We had five cases posted for the day: open inguinal hernia repair; open cholecystectomy; renal stone removal; bladder stone removal; and ...
Despite all the advances made in Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) over the last 4 decades, sinus surgery in most of Cuba today is still being performed using open approaches. Because of this...
Global surgery is an area of study, research, practice, and advocacy that seeks to improve health outcomes and achieve health equity for all people who require surgical care, with a special emphasis o...
