New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Sarah Kliff and Aimee ...

Overlapping surgery, in which a single senior surgeon operates across two parallel operating theaters and anesthetists induce anesthesia and junior surgeons commence and complete the operation, has ...

Heart specialists at NHS Golden Jubilee are cutting out one of the ‘longest incisions in surgery’ from routine operations, giving Scottish patients a quicker, and almost pain-free, recovery. Patient ...

A new Yale study finds an increased risk of hospital readmission for older Americans within 180 days of undergoing major surgery — a risk that is particularly acute for individuals who are frail or ...

Already 19 patients have undergone Robotic Assisted Surgery in the last six weeks at Forth Valley Royal Hospital ...

Seven out of eight operating theatres ended up 'underwater' at the University Hospital of North Tees last month, an NHS board ...