New technology is allowing highly-trained surgeons to make smaller incisions, meaning less narcotics and fewer infections and complications.

Large cell carcinoma is aggressive, requiring early detection through imaging and biopsy for optimal treatment outcomes.

The unconventional method could be the future of heart surgeries.

For the first time ever in a human, doctors have performed coronary artery bypass grafting without having to cut through the ...

The proportion of patients with postoperative pulmonary complications in the first 5 days after thoracic surgery did not ...

Shame can shape how early patients get diagnosed, and how aggressively they pursue treatment, if at all. In a 2014 study, Dr.

Radical nephrectomy removes an entire kidney and surrounding structures. A unilateral nephrectomy leaves one kidney and does not require dialysis. Laparoscopic nephrectomy has a shorter recovery time ...

Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt practiced on Wednesday for the first time since undergoing a procedure to fix a collapsed lung he sustained at the team's facility Dec. 10. The ...

Supermodel Anok Yai has revealed a serious health diagnosis that she says was "overworking" her heart and "slowly destroying" her lungs. The 28-year-old Model of the Year shared a post on social media ...

"What started as something asymptomatic for the majority of my life turned into a lingering cough, which turned to chest pains, bouts of coughing up blood, then at times, struggling to breathe," she ...