Do you know how many people are at the table with gloves on, when you have an operation? There’s the surgeon and a scrub nurse, of course. A surgical tech may be there too, suctioning up those queasy ...

One of the Army's top advocates for the care and treatment of its ill and wounded Soldiers and their Families now will serve as assistant surgeon general for warrior care and transition. The Army has ...

Most people aren't aware that surgeons are sometimes involved in multiple operations happening at the same time, and many patients might object to the practice if they knew about it, a recent U.S.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. — In order to help improve the safety and effectiveness of surgery, doctors at Jefferson Regional in Pine Bluff are using robots to do so. The extra help has been a dream come true ...

U.S. Army assistant surgeon Bernard John Dowling "J.D." Irwin rescued a kidnapped boy and 60 soldiers encircled by legendary Apache warrior Cochise on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861. Irwin's ...

Izzy Benasso was playing a casual game of tennis with her father on a summer Saturday when she felt her knee pop. She had torn a meniscus, one of the friction-reducing pads in the knee, locking it in ...

If four out-of-network specialty providers — anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists and assistant surgeons — could no longer balance bill patients for care provided at in-network hospitals, ...

An Indiana orthopedic surgeon has been charged with clamping an assistant’s finger with a medical instrument and making her bleed in a surgical room, the Times of Northwest Indiana is reporting. Dr.

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