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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A woman is suing Shasta Regional Medical Center and a Redding doctor for medical negligence because she says an 8-inch long surgical instrument was left inside her during surgery. The lawsuit says ...