Surgery

The first time many patients in the United States take prescription opioid painkillers is following surgery.

While the procedure was underway, the team constantly monitored the fetus's heart.

A 10-month-old girl who was born with a rare "parasitic twin" attached to her body has undergone a successful surgery.

Scientists have found a way to thaw out frozen organs that won't destroy the organs in the process.

Researchers recently succeeded in making embryos that contained both pig and human and pig cells.

The strategy of growing the organs of one species inside the body of another could one day help to produce transplantable human organs.

A 27-year-old in Bangladesh known as the "tree man" recently underwent surgery to remove the extensive, wood-like warts that covered his hands and feet.

Conjoined twin girls who shared much of their lower body were successfully separated after a surgery that took 17 hours.