A new technique now in use at UC San Diego Medical Center reduces the amount of skin that must go under the knife for abdominal surgery. The procedure makes a roughly half-inch incision inside a ...

DALLAS – Aug. 23, 2007 – Surgeons specializing in laparoscopic procedures at UT Southwestern Medical Center have successfully removed a patient’s kidney by performing a unique nephrectomy entirely ...

Surgeons have removed a patient's diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly button. No other incisions were used. On Thursday, February 5, 2009, surgeons at the University of California ...

NEW YORK. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Whether it happened during pregnancy, or they were just born that way, thousands of women and men have outie belly buttons they don’t like. Now, they don’t have to hide ...

Crohn's disease in a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It can involve any area of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus, but most commonly affects the last area of the small intestine, ...

Instead of flying hundreds of miles away to train on new equipment and procedures, Mercy Health Center surgeons can step outside their office and into a high-tech tractor-trailer for a day of training ...