Surgery

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.

Singer-songwriter John Mayer went to the hospital this morning (Dec. 5) for an emergency appendectomy, or surgery to remove his appendix.

Doctors in India were shocked to find that a patient with stomach pain had swallowed hundreds of coins and nails.

An Italian neurosurgeon is claiming that his team has performed the world's first "successful" human head transplant, using two human cadavers in China, according to news reports.

Cotton swabs aren't actually the most common cause of eardrum rupture, according to the study. Instead, blunt trauma is the leading reason for the injury.