That’s because in the fall of 1974, John underwent surgery for a ligament tear in his elbow, an injury once considered career-ending. John was the first pitcher to return to action after ...

The right renal artery was cut tight to the proximal end and reimplanted to the distal end, in the posterior wall of the main graft. The celiac trunk was ligated, the prosthetic branch to the ...

By Richard Sandomir Dr. George Berci, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who changed the way modern surgery is conducted by developing techniques and instruments that help doctors better see and ...

Robot-assisted surgeries have been used for many different heart-related procedures. These include valve surgery, coronary artery bypass, cardiac tissue ablation, heart defect repair, and tumor ...

Take something as mundane as an extra blood vessel in our arms, which going by current trends could be commonplace within just a few generations. An artery that temporarily runs down the center of our ...

What is off-pump CABG? Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is a type of heart surgery. Surgeons do this type of surgery to bypass blockages in the coronary arteries. An off-pump CABG is a CABG done ...

A team of experts hoped a new, first of its kind, technology could help transform the future of hip replacement surgery. Researchers in Cambridge have won an award to further develop their ...