Surgery

An old adage with a modern spin says that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet. That especially goes for plastic surgery videos on YouTube.

Connecticut surgeons recently removed a 132-lb. (60 kilograms) ovarian tumor from a woman's abdomen.

To treat a 7-year-old's cancer, doctors performed an unusual surgery.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine performed the world's first complete penis and scrotum transplant, the hospital announced today (April 23).

Lives tragically claimed by the American opioid epidemic may benefit people desperately in need of organ transplants.

Middle-age adults who had surgery showed greater declines in memory and executive function than similar people who did not have surgery.

Years after a C-section, doctors spotted a strange complication.

Actress Lena Dunham has revealed that she recently underwent a hysterectomy to treat crippling pain from endometriosis.

A veteran in Connecticut is suing a Veterans Affair Hospital, claiming that someone left a scalpel handle inside of his abdomen after surgery, according to news reports.

A British surgeon has pleaded guilty to charges that he marked his initials into patients' organs using a medical instrument called an "argon beam coagulator," according to news reports.