During bypass surgery, a surgeon connects healthy blood vessels to bypass a blocked artery. It is often needed for those with ...

Surgical procedures to repair the hand have historically been performed in the OR with patients receiving general ...

Guidance from professional societies on how to handle the risk for pulmonary aspiration during general anesthesia or deep sedation for patients taking glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 ...

Click here to read the Cover Story, “WALANT enables surgeons ‘to do more with less’.”The patient experience has always been at the heart of surgical practice.

A new guideline from the American College of Gastroenterology provides advice on how to make surgery safer for patients with ...

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

How soon can you resume normal activities after surgery? Surgeon Motaz Selim, MD, PhD, breaks down the recovery process, offering expert advice on everything from dealing with post-surgery pain to ...

A year after undergoing the first whole-eye and partial-face transplant, Aaron James is finding beauty in the mundane. He can finally appreciate solid foods again — smelling is even a simple pleasure ...

Hugo Ramirez, something of a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson look-alike, has high aspirations. Ramirez, who underwent painful leg-lengthening surgery to shoot up from 5 feet 9 inches to over 6 feet tall, is ...