People having surgery to repair tight or leaking heart valves may receive a pacemaker more often than necessary—leading to a ...

For people having surgery unrelated to their hearts, new guidelines detail how to manage heart and stroke risks before, ...

Five University of Texas at Tyler Longview University Center nursing students. One week working at a Guatemalan hospital in ...

As quality indicators and benchmarks for colonoscopy increase in coming years, gastroenterologists must think about ways to ...

Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Specialist Hospital has achieved a medical milestone by performing the world's first fully robotic ...

Unlike other operating rooms, this one is equipped with a moveable MRI system that slides on a track, allowing doctors to take scans during surgery in real time.

Groundbreaking 2.5-hour procedure was performed on a 16-year-old patient suffering from end-stage heart failure.

Orthopedic surgeons are medical doctors who specialize in treating injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system and perform surgery on ... conditions and improve patients' quality of ...

The type of surgery you have will depend on where your cancer is, what size it is and whether it has spread to other parts of the body. If your cancer has spread outside the colon or rectum, read our ...

The James family is preparing to send Allie to college. This photo was taken in September 2024. The James Family James feels honored to be “patient zero.” “Even if I can’t see out of my ...

National running events like the London Marathon and Great North Run inspire thousands of armchair viewers to get healthy, according to new figures released by the NHS today. Visits to the NHS couch ...