The operating room represents medicine at its most critical juncture, where life and death decisions unfold in real time.

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 ...

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, ...

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf digitizes its operating rooms using fiber optics while ensuring IT security ...

The operating room (OR) can be a mysterious place. It has long been a relatively hidden medical environment, where the only people who know what happens in it are the on-duty medics. However, new ...

Cincinnati Children's teamed up with Philips to create the first Azurion hybrid operating room. This will combine tools from surgery and interventional radiology to create a more effective way to ...

Starting this week, patients at SVMC can go under the knife — or rather, under the da Vinci 5 robot, controlled by a surgeon — for operations like gallbladder and ...

On the heels of CES, there's been a lot of talk about technology that helps us see the world and create stunning visual realities. Curved TV screens, higher resolution pictures, 3D and even Google ...

While most scheduled surgeries do proceed as planned, same-day cancellations for surgeries and other procedures are fairly frequent, ranging from 2.5% to 20%, depending on the procedure, a study found ...

Many patients are told surgery is inevitable for joint pain, but exploring non-surgical options to improve joint function may reduce damage and help you avoid the operating room altogether.