A team of surgeons successfully removed a massive tumor from a 38-year-old patient, effectively saving her life. The 132-pound ovarian mass is...
A woman in Texas has been arrested after it was discovered that her eight-year-old son had undergone 13 surgeries and hundreds of...
Doctors who were supposed to treat a man for suspected food poisoning were stunned to discover a large assortment of metal items...
Doctors generally use staples or sutures to close open wounds. However, neither of these methods creates a complete seal. It gets even...
Children swallow anything and everything if adults don’t keep a close eye on them, usually resulting in a trip to the emergency...
Doctors in Western Australia got quite a surprise when they operated on a patient and found a piece of dental wire that...
Surgical robots are expected to be the next big thing in operating rooms around the world, even though many doctors have observed...
A woman born without a uterus has become the first person in the United States to undergo cutting-edge surgery to receive a...
Americans suffer almost 800,000 strokes each year, of which about ten percent are caused by carotid narrowing. For those with narrowed carotid...
The U.K.’s Independent newspaper reports that doctors at a hospital in Tennessee have mistakenly carried out an unnecessary operation on a “happy...
A team of Canadian doctors have successfully and non-invasively broken through the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain in order to deliver...
For dislocated acromio-clavicular (AC) joints, surgery might not be the best treatment option as a new study has found physical therapy to...
An anonymous essay published in the Annals of Internal Medicine this week reveals shocking behavior inside the operating room. The essay describes...
Mozart may be the new anesthesia. A study published by a quartet of researchers suggests that doctors can lower the pre-operation anxiety...
3D printing, a process where a physical object is created from a 3D digital model, is the name of the technology used...
A woman, whose ovarian tissue was removed when she was 13 years old, gave birth to a baby boy late last year. The...
Shaving an extra millimeter or two of surrounding tissue when removing a breast tumor can reduce the need for follow-up surgery by...
Arthur Lampitt from Granite City, Illinois ended up having an accident with his car 51 years ago, smashing into a truck with...