I’m a surgeon, and I couldn’t be more excited about the potential for communications tools to democratize access to essential knowledge in my profession. Throughout the history of modern surgery, ...

If you've ever wondered about what goes on in the operating room — whether you've been a patient or not — then your curiosity is about to be satiated. Shannon Fagan / Getty Images Recently, I spoke ...

The concept of a hybrid operating room is new to health care and is an advanced procedural space that takes a traditional operating room and combines it with an image-guided interventional suite. This ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

Mark Strand, a married father of three from Nokesville, Virginia, said he knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. "I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers, not super high," he ...

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital has opened a second OB/GYN operating room, expanding advanced care for mothers, newborns and growing families.

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

A study published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal is believed to be the first of its kind to link operating room design to the length of knee- and hip-replacement surgeries. The ...

Mark Strand, 68, knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. “I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers,” Strand said. “And the PET scan revealed, in the end, a mass on top of my head.” ...