I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

Infant heart transplants are extraordinarily rare. A Times health journalist donned scrubs and witnessed how the surgery ...

If you've ever wondered about what goes on in the operating room — whether you've been a patient or not — then your curiosity is about to be satiated. Shannon Fagan / Getty Images Recently, I spoke ...

An initiative that asks surgery patients to bring their own reusable bags for belongings and a reusable water bottle decreased surgical carbon footprints, waste, and cost.

Texas Health Hospital Mansfield has completed its new hybrid operating room (OR), expanding access to advanced surgical care ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

Mark Strand, 68, knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. “I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers,” Strand said. “And the PET scan revealed, in the end, a mass on top of my head.” ...