In an advisory issued Friday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recommended that labels on alcoholic beverages be updated to include a warning about the risk of cancer associated with alcohol ...

Stents are a less invasive option, while CABG is a major surgery. Your healthcare provider will consider how many blockages you have and where they are. The best treatment option depends on individual ...

For example, finding a lump earlier may mean a patient's treatment course will involve a lumpectomy instead of a more intense surgery such as a mastectomy. One challenge of increased screening ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

Surgeons have removed a previously inoperable brain tumour from a patient by performing keyhole surgery through her eye socket. Mother-of-three Ruvimbo Kaviya, 40, had a meningioma removed from ...

Former day care worker Melissa Calusinski has served 16 years of a 31-year prison sentence for a crime she insists she didn't commit — a murder that may not have even happened. She was convicted ...

Dr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last ...

Though the demand for surgery remains, trusted surgeons -- particularly those in independent practices -- may soon be in short supply. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges ...

A surgeon in Austin, Texas, was in the middle of surgery when she was notified of a phone call from the patient’s insurance provider. Dr. Elisabeth Potter is a board-certified plastic surgeon ...

Penis enlargement surgery can involve silicon implants, fat transfer, ligament division, and other procedures. Surgery is rarely necessary in medical terms, and it can entail complications.