“As a nation and as a world, we have to reject the current dogma that surgery is not part of global health,” said Sherry Wren, Stanford Medical Center professor of general surgery, during her TEDx ...

Millions of people are dying from common, easily treatable conditions like appendicitis, fractures, or obstructed labor because they do not have access to, or can't afford, proper surgical care, ...

The rate of high-risk surgical operations for back pain increased 15-fold in five years, and researchers studying the trend say that it may be harming more than helping some patients. The study ...

For the inexperienced individual, learning surgical techniques can be taxing. The authors developed a rodent surgery dry lab training program to assist educational and research institutions in ...