As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

LAWRENCE – Xiaobo Quan is proud that his study is the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. Thus, the University of Kansas School of ...

I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

It is an operation a lot of us will go through at some point in our lives. With 5,000 undertaken every year, cataract operations dominate Hull and East Yorkshire Eye Hospital. Hull Live’s reporter ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

A surgeon has slammed UnitedHealthcare after the insurance giant allegedly disputed her patient's care while she was on the operating table. Dr Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Texas, claims ...

A North Carolina hospital took the groundbreaking decision to let a dog into the operating theater yesterday as it's seven-year-old owner underwent life-saving surgery. First-grader Kaelyn Krawczyk ...