Three doctors in Kerala performed a daring emergency life-saving procedure on a roadside using mobile phone light and basic ...

A woman in northern India has died after a fake doctor allegedly attempted to perform surgery while watching a YouTube tutorial.

A lobotomy is a brain surgery to treat mental health conditions where part of the frontal lobe is removed or cut. Lobotomies were considered breakthroughs in the 1940s-60s but had serious side effects ...

The Whipple procedure is a complex surgery that may save your life and has a five-year survival rate of 16.4% for those undergoing it. After a Whipple procedure, patients may need pancreatic enzyme ...

When you need buy-in for a major change, you can usually predict how people will react: some will object, others will want their ideas to dominate and a few will stay silent in the background. To help ...

What is an implantable device replacement procedure? Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are heart devices. They are surgically implanted in people who need them. Pacemakers ...

The maze procedure is an operation to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib or AF), a type of irregular heartbeat. What is a maze procedure? The maze procedure creates scars in strategic places in the atria ...

What Is a Chest Tube? A chest tube is a plastic tube that is used to drain fluid or air from the chest. Air or fluid (for example blood or pus) that collects in the space between the lungs and chest ...

PurdueALERT is the university’s emergency notification system, used by public safety officials to warn students, faculty and staff of imminent danger through multiple communication methods. These ...