surgery

What began in the 1990s as an up-and-coming surgical procedure for treating aneurysms has not only become common practice today, but is also proven to...

Frances Halley had always known she had a heart murmur, but it wasn’t until she saw Dr. Stephen Bailey, Allegheny General Hospital’s director of cardi...

When Ada Fetsko was born on April 25, 2006, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Her mother, Denise Fetsko, had what she recalls as a normal pregnancy ...

BUFFALO (AP) — Buffalo Sabres center Tyler Ennis is out indefinitely after having surgery to repair a groin injury. The team says Ennis will miss seve...

It might seem odd to say that Linda Vance is a lucky person. After all, Vance fought lung cancer. But she is lucky; her cancer was discovered in stage...

Thirty years ago, people with not-so-perfect vision had only a couple of options to fix it—basically eyeglasses or contact lenses, many of which weren...

It was a simple movement that alerted Carol Glock to her cancer. As she leaned over her husband’s shoulder to read something on his computer, her left...

If you’re like most people, you’ve gone under the knife at least once in your life. According to a survey by the American College of Surgeons, the ave...

Thirty years ago, heart transplants were still relativelynew and uncommon. So when doctors recommendedthat procedure for 18-year-old Michael Grief, of...

Peggy Tippin is quite matter-of-fact when she talks about the dayher heart stopped, or, as she puts it, “the day I died."And, it’s no tall tale she te...

She had survived the unthinkable, but Tameka Dickerson couldn’t see herself as a triumphant breast cancer survivor. At 28, the disease put her life in...