MELBOURNE, Australia — Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins spent their first night in separate beds and were in serious but stable condition We...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Women are undergoing surgery to create perfect genitalia amid a "shocking" lack of information on the potential risks of the procedure, a report says....
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
I have sought to understand the link between diet and the dreaded diseases that are prevalent in our culture. Following is a fascinating conversation I had on diet and heart health.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
Sila Folow was an 8-year-old girl living in Mali when four elderly women used a sharp blade to cut out her clitoris and most of her labia. Luckily fo...
Dr. Josh Dines and Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
90 to 95% of people undergoing surgery for rotator cuff tears typically have good to excellent outcomes. The results for professional baseball players, however, have been less promising.
AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
ST. LOUIS — A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in op...
AP | Frances Kerry | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent elective back surgery Thursday, a procedure his office said "went well." "He is having...
Paul E. Barber | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
The complaints directed at Canada's health care system about waiting times for treatment are without foundation. My experience -- I was treated for a brain tumor in 2004 -- says quite the opposite.
Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Fox News has an uplifting report about how doctors were able to create a new nose for a woman from Guyana by first growing it on her arm. The young w...
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.
Los Angeles Times | Caesar Ahmed | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style
There was a time when Baghdad's reconstructive surgeons were rushed off their feet trying to repair the terrible disfigurements caused by war. These ...
Helene Pavlov | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living
Osteoarthritis is a major health and economic concern, with costs in the US of at least $15.5 billion per year. Worldwide, osteoarthritis has a greater impact on health than diabetes, asthma or HIV.
The Atlantic Food Channel | Samuel T. Stanley | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
It was around the time of my sister's college graduation when I realized that I could no longer hide the fact that I had lost a significant amount of ...
Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
As I walked around town looking generally pathetic with my hand wrapped in a giant cloud of gauze, I was pleasantly surprised at how quick strangers were to help me.
Janice Horowitz | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living
Most stomach-stapling patients lose 3/4 of their extra weight within 12 months. However, complications will strike a quarter of people who have the surgery and one in every 200 will die from it.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment
We've already seen Junior, the great career-defining work of the esteemed Californian governor, played out in real life.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 01.16.2009 | Home
CLEVELAND — A woman so horribly disfigured she was willing to risk her life to do something about it has undergone the nation's first near-total...
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 12.07.2008 | Style
Botox is better than money in the bank for regular users. But the new economic reality has forced some patients to cut back on treatments and stretch out the interval between them.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living
As anyone who "practices" as a doctor knows that what they are being asked to do on a daily basis is somewhat of a miraculous task.
Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living
When Albert Pagliuca got gallstones, his surgeon offered to remove his gallbladder with a new operation designed to hurt less, get him back to work mo...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
Like any father, I wish I could take my son's place in all of life's harrowing rides, but I settle for what I can do: sit close, hold his hand, and tighten his buckle.
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent surgery Friday to repair a partially blocked artery in his neck, which was discovered during an examination of a deca...
AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | World