A Surgeon Opens Up, and Not With a Scalpel
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Dr. Thomas R. Russell, the executive director of the American College of Surgeons, discusses medical innovation, the health care crisis and more.
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Armed with miniaturized medical devices, surgeons bring advanced care to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan just moments after they're hurt. By Randy Dotinga.
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Surgeons get a shock when a patient sheds dark green blood.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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Under the lights of his operating room at New York Presbyterian Hospital, heart surgeon Dr. Craig Smith looks like a futurist, using high-tech robotic techniques on elderly
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When Cheryl Lawrence got a diagnosis of breast cancer, her surgeon told her she could save her breast. But Lawrence decided to have it removed anyway. And then she decided to have the healthy one removed, too.
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The world's oldest surgeon, Fyodor Uglov from St Petersburg, reveals the secret of his long life - no vodka, no smoking.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients at risk for undergoing surgery now have a successful option to open clogged arteries. A study reported in this weekâs The New England Journal of Medicine finds a less-invasive
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Coping at a hospital when the doctor is in, but the interpreter is out.
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Experts in a field can benefit from an outsiderâs perspective.
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If the government gets its way, more than a million patients will be operated on by surgeons from the private rather than public health sector.
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Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few billionths of a metre wide.
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French surgeons took out a patient's gallbladder without cutting her abdomen, removing it through an incision in her vagina in what they said was a glimpse of the future of surgery, they reported on Monday.
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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A surgical gown with incision marks is designed to boost medical students' empathy for their patients.
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Sometimes, it is only when the patient is halfway out the door that important information spills out.