Surgery is also called an operation. It is a procedure where a specialist doctor called a surgeon removes or repairs some of the tissue in your body. Normally you have an anaesthetic before you have ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Pediatric cardiac surgeon Danielle Gottlieb Sen, MS, MD, MPH, has joined the Heart Institute team at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gottlieb Sen comes to Le Bonheur from ...

Managing hypertension (high blood pressure) before, during, and after surgery is important to ensuring the best outcomes. If your blood pressure is too high before surgery, the procedure may need to ...

No surgery is risk-free, but understanding the possible complications can help you make better and more informed decisions. Possible risks include a reaction to anesthesia, postoperative pain, nerve ...

A former surgeon on trial in France for sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most under 15, has admitted guilt for all 299 victims, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. Joel Le Scouarnec ...

Maxime Tessier, lawyer of ex-surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, speaks to media during the trial of Scouarnec, accused of rape, aggravated rape and sexual assault against hundreds of children over several ...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that vaccine skepticism has eroded the importance of herd immunity in light of the measles outbreak in Texas, and put some of the blame on Health ...

Florida's controversial surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, and a former Texas Republican congressman, Dr. Michael Burgess, are each being backed by some of President Trump's allies to be the next ...

A 74-year-old French former surgeon standing trial for sexually abusing 299 of his patients, most of them children, admitted in court on Thursday that he was guilty of all the criminal charges brought ...

Last week, a Brown University surgeon was deported to Lebanon in violation of a court order. While it was not immediately clear why the doctor, Rasha Alawieh, had been detained and deported ...