With all the debate going on with health care, you...  ...travel companion.More to the point, the two-hour surgery in July, performed by an orthopedic surgeon train...  ...n of the $45,000 to $90,000 she had been told the surgery would cost at home."I wouldn't have been abl...  ...at home."I wouldn't h...

A trip through the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago will make you glad you live in the modern world instead of the "good old days"! Wired has a gallery of exhibit photos ranging from a skull that belon...

John Manley of Wilmington, North Carolina suffered frequent pneumonia and coughing spells for over a year before the real culprit was found: there was a jagged inch-long piece of plastic lodged in his left lung. It turne...

(YouTube Link) Courtesy of the British Medical Asssociation, Wired has a collection of seven videos from the 1930s showing common surgeries. They're good demonstrations of what has changed and what hasn't in the past...

Think your health care plan is bad? Consider yourself lucky that you don't live back in the middle ages when "advanced" surgeries were done using these 20 seriously scary surgical tools. Yikes. This one to t...

Veterinary medicine is a truly interesting field....  ...the fish’s fallopian tubes. Throughout the surgery , there were only two pinhole incisions cut into t...  ...procedure was over. The fish recovered from the surgery well and was soon released into the wild to help...  ...bout our wild sturgeon popul...

Surgeons have found a new way to send updates to o...  ...doctors, medical students, and the public during surgery -by using the social networking site Twitter! La...  ...Craig Rogers, the lead surgeon in the Henry Ford surgery , said the impetus for his Twittering was to let p...

No doubt about it -these are horror stories. There...  ...n a patient's body, the women who underwent heart surgery scheduled for a different patient, and several ca...  ...led for a different patient, and several cases of surgery on the wrong side of the body. Pictured is Jésic...

It's a fairly rare thing to be clumsy enough to cut off your hand, and I'm sure it's even rarer to do it twice. That's what happened to New Zealand meatpacker Bryan Speers. While cutting meat with a band saw, he slipp...

In case you're not familiar with her, Jocelyn Wild...  ...here in the neighborhood of $4 million on plastic surgery . There are a couple of different stories out the...  ...with a 19-year-old Russian model. Either she had surgery to try to keep her appearance young and fresh to...  ...her look, by the way....