Surgery Errors

New research suggests that carrying belly fat might put you at increased risk if you need to have surgery.

Since 2000, plastic surgery procedures has increased by at least 115%. This new era of cosmetic surgery looks very different...

Find out the best day to plan a surgery and the factors that help make your surgery successful.

Totally autonomous, surgical robots are coming--assuming human anesthesiologists and surgeons are someday willing to let them.

There are seven specific procedures that result in 80 percent of the emergency general surgery mortalities in the United States.

Surgeons are double-task, cutting one patient open in operating room A and then scooting over to operating room B to...

Medication errors are made in nearly 50% of surgical procedures.