The percutaneous ultrasound-guided procedure removes the cyst via a tiny puncture with no sutures or activity restrictions.

American Hospital Dubai has achieved another milestone in surgical excellence with the region’s first percutaneous ...

Among asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis, a previous analysis showed that the risk of a composite of death during surgery or within 30 days after surgery (called operative mortality) or ...

Limb-lengthening can add inches to a person’s stature. But its risks have made it controversial. Credit... Supported by By Isabella Kwai Photographs by Matthew Leifheit Isabella Kwai spoke to ...

In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. By Andrew Jacobs In the first malpractice verdict against ...

Imagine a world where surgeons are guided by AI to perform complex operations with the precision of world-class experts and where life-saving surgery reaches remote corners of the globe through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

Surgery might be a physical event, but it’s a mental and emotional one, too. Even if the procedure is routine, it can bring up real fears of pain and the unknown. That kind of stress doesn’t always ...

Credit: Getty Images Preventing sepsis after surgery should include screening before the surgery, close monitoring after surgery, and teaching patients how to recognize the signs of sepsis. Our ...

It’s normal to have anxiety about cataract surgery—and even postpone scheduling the procedure out of fear. But it shouldn’t be that way. Dr. Jeff Dello Russo, an ophthalmologist at Dello Russo Laser ...

Ten years ago, a scan showed that I had torn the meniscus in my knee. The pain was bad and I was limping a lot of the time. My doctor recommended arthroscopic knee surgery to fix it. Being scared of ...

The rate of post-surgery infection from endophthalmitis is less than 0.1%. As ophthalmologists who have performed thousands of these procedures, we know that many patients have misconceptions about ...