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 ...

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 ...

Debbie Segreti had a big problem seven weeks ago. She needed emergency heart surgery, and one of her best friends stepped in. "It was a very difficult emotional decision to agree to do it," heart ...

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 ...

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Chad Teven, Plastic Surgeon, Microsurgeon & Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Northwestern Medicine; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Appointed last week by President Eisenhower as the new Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service: Leroy E. Burney. 49, for the past two years an Assistant Surgeon General under Dr. Leonard A.