A hotel worker has died after a clamp went into his brain while he was undergoing an operation on his nose in Peru. Luis Fernando Dávila Castañeda was declared brain dead in hospital following the ...

DENVER - A civil trial began Tuesday morning for a former patient of the Denver VA Medical Center who is suing the federal government after surgeons left a clamp inside his body during surgery.

Surgical principles that guided varicose vein surgery for nearly 75 years have been time honored and taught to generations of surgeons. Each of these principles has been challenged successfully, and, ...

Minimizing trauma to the body's largest artery -- the aorta -- during heart bypass surgery can significantly reduce cognitive loss that often follows the operation, a team from Wake Forest University ...

Doctors in Montreal perform a breast augmentation procedure, one of the surgeries that would be covered by the new regulations. ((CBC)) Quebec's college of physicians wants to introduce tighter ...