The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has issued a broad recommendation against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the United States to narrow ...

For the past year, the United States has gone without its doctor. Ever since Vivek Murthy resigned as surgeon general last January, the role has remained empty despite President Trump’s attempts to ...

The surgeon accused of killing his ex-wife and her dentist husband at their Ohio home was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury Friday in connection with their murders. The five-count indictment ...

Neighbors of the Chicago surgeon suspected of gunning down his ex-wife and her dentist husband were shocked to learn the man they shared their luxury apartment complex with is an alleged murderer.

Nearly a decade after consumer VR took its first real steps—driven by headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the medium has outgrown its novelty phase. Those early platforms ...

Less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women. At a recent conference, they vowed to change that. More than 230 people attended the second annual meeting of Women in ...

The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has been postponed after she went into labor, a spokesperson for the Senate committee set to ...

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) will hold a virtual confirmation hearing over the nomination of Casey Means to be U.S. surgeon general next week, five months ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. On this episode of The Pursuit of Exceptional Care, host T ...

A recent US study published in JAMA Surgery analyzed national mortality data and found that surgeons had significantly higher mortality risk than other doctors, highlighting the occupational toll of ...

Harvard Medical School investigators have discovered that U.S. surgeons have a cancer mortality rate more than two times that of nonsurgeon physicians and around 20% higher than most non-physician ...

An analysis of death certificate data showed that surgeons had a higher mortality rate than non-surgeon physicians. However, the mortality rate for other highly educated workers was similar to that of ...