Less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women. At a recent conference, they vowed to change that.

Our central nervous system is made up, it turns out, of gray and white matter, but it is the gray matter, which makes up the outer layers of our brain, that plays the most important role in the ...

The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl ...

Dr. Andrew Brunswick shared the seven rules he lives by after years spent witnessing life’s fragility at work.

As US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy nears the end of his second term as the nation’s doctor, a final diagnosis of his patient suggests that a great deficiency of connectivity has led to a poor ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy on Tuesday released his penned parting prescription to the country preparing his exit as the nation's top doctor. As he closes out his term, Murthy is urging ...