The Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital has performed its first pneumonectomy, a delicate surgical procedure removing an entire lung. The landmark JOOTRH operation, conducted last ...
The patient – let’s call her Melanie – in my consulting room looked absolutely mortified. ‘What seems to be the problem,’ I asked. Melanie blushed and mumbled something from behind her hand while ...
Pope Francis has been in hospital in Rome since Friday, when he was diagnosed with a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection. Given he is 88 and has one lung, he faces greater risks from the ...