Late last year, at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the members of the American College of Gastroenterology got some interesting news: A new study found that surgeons performing colonoscopies ...

Dr. Theodore Schwartz has been treating neurological illnesses for nearly 30 years. He says being a brain surgeon requires steady hands — and a... For this brain surgeon, the operating room is 'the ...

Surgeons have stressful, high-stakes jobs. Luckily, they receive years of academic and practical training to help them prepare. However, patients, the ones putting their lives on the line each day, ...

U.K. surgeons remotely removed a man’s prostate cancer from 1,500 miles away in the country’s first successful robot-assisted ...

Update 11/14: Changed the headline to better convey Moon Surgical’s work. On its website, Moon Surgical says plainly it “builds things that matter.” For them, accessibility means reimagining the ...

In popular culture depictions of surgery, a scalpel-wielding doctor usually cuts an abdomen wide open, before rootling around in a person’s viscera and depositing some organ onto a tray. But the ...

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Familiarity between a surgeon and anesthesiologist was tied to improved postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing certain surgeries. Benefits were observed for high- and low-risk gastrointestinal ...

Neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz still remembers the first time he witnessed brain surgery in person. He was in medical school, and the surgeon sat in a special chair that was designed to hold the arms ...