Health First surgeon Dr. Marshall Bovelsky believes informed patients make the best decisions, and that honest conversations ...

A blood test could help doctors decide which patients with colon cancer should receive anti-inflammatory medication along ...

Age-related dementia, cataract, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and hearing loss are all ...

A patient scheduled for spine surgery at Asante Ashland Community Hospital says his procedure was abruptly canceled this week ...

A new study suggests that people undergoing certain surgeries may be safer at hospitals where women make up at least one-third of their surgical team — adding to an already growing pool of research ...

A prominent plastic surgeon has been reprimanded and indefinitely suspended by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after he left a patient in the middle of an operation to perform surgery down the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — At the age of 26, Shaun Warnecke of Chesapeake smiles and laughs a lot. "It feels incredible," said Warnecke with, of course, a smile on his face. "Yeah, [I'm] smiling today!

A Boston-based doctor gave a public mea culpa after the wrong patient surgery Nov. 11, 2010— -- Dr. David Ring, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, had wrapped up his final operation of ...

One of the high-risk steps was the intubation, which involves inserting a breathing tube into the trachea after anesthesia.

FREISTADT, Austria (WKRC) - A doctor in Austria who botched a surgery by amputating the wrong leg on a patient has been fired. According toAFP news agency, the surgeon removed an elderly patient's ...