Latest about Surgery
How did doctors perform surgery before modern anesthesia?
The history of anesthesia in surgery was grisly, painful and occasionally very dubious.
Creating 'universal' transplant organs: New study moves us one step closer.
The technique will soon be tested in a clinical trial.
Surgeons transplant pig's heart into dying human patient in a first
The heart from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a Maryland man in a last-ditch effort to save his life.
Pig kidney successfully hooked up to human patient in watershed experiment
The experiment was brief, but the results hint at the promise of pig-to-human transplants.
Lobotomy: Definition, procedure and history
Lobotomy is a neurosurgical operation that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal lobe.
Why do faces become less symmetrical with age?
The aging process doesn't happen equally on both sides, leaving the human face increasingly less symmetrical with age.
What happens to your body when you're an organ donor?
With organ donation, the death of one person can lead to the survival of many others. But when a donor dies, how do doctors save their organs for transplantation?
In rare surgery, hospital swaps man's lost thumb for a big toe
The cobbler thought he'd never work again, but the strange surgery saved his hand function.
