While federal officials say they intend to crack down on misleading drug ads, cosmetic surgery remains a “buyer beware” ...

Court filings in Florida show patients staying in recovery houses and hotels have died or suffered untreated complications.

A new study suggests that people undergoing certain surgeries may be safer at hospitals where women make up at least one-third of their surgical team — adding to an already growing pool of research ...

Huntington Hospital reports performing New York’s first single-port gallbladder and Suffolk’s first single-port thoracic robotic surgeries ...

The Iowa Board of Medicine fines a Des Moines surgeon in the death of a patient who a lawsuit alleged suffered an injury ...

President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists says the drugs slowed digestion, which could potentially ...

A prominent plastic surgeon has been reprimanded and indefinitely suspended by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after he left a patient in the middle of an operation to perform surgery down the ...

Informing patients about bariatric surgery is a comprehensive discussion, so aim to provide the most up-to-date information about both pre- and post-surgery expectations.

A Mumbai-based hospital successfully carried out remote robotic surgeries on two patients, with the operating surgeon located ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — At the age of 26, Shaun Warnecke of Chesapeake smiles and laughs a lot. "It feels incredible," said Warnecke with, of course, a smile on his face. "Yeah, [I'm] smiling today!

A Boston-based doctor gave a public mea culpa after the wrong patient surgery Nov. 11, 2010— -- Dr. David Ring, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, had wrapped up his final operation of ...