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Health Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson — Associated Press

First person to receive a pig heart transplant dies after two months

Health Megan Molteni

After a flurry of firsts, xenotransplantation is suddenly back in the spotlight

Health Megan Molteni

First transplant of a genetically altered pig heart into a person sparks ethics questions

Health Nicholas St. Fleur

STAT Conversation: The Whitest Medical Specialty

A STAT Investigation Hyacinth Empinado and Usha Lee McFarling

Watch: A rebel with a cause: As a mentor and a leader, this Black orthopedic surgeon fights to diversify his field

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?

Health Gideon Gil

‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Organ donations held almost steady during the pandemic, as the U.S. transplant system scrambled to keep going

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First Opinion Shiza Abbasi and Carrie B. Dolan

To improve children’s health in low-income countries, put pediatric surgery on par with preventing malaria or HIV

Health Trisha Pasricha

Pregnancy tests are routine before many surgical procedures. But Dobbs has raised the stakes of a positive result

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Health Miriam Shuchman

Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter

Health Isabella Cueto

Moving xenotransplantation research into human trials will require adjusting our expectations, researchers say

Video Chat Gideon Gil

Virtual Event – ‘Augmented’: The future of brain-controlled prosthetic limbs

Health Isabella Cueto

By altering the blood type of lungs, researchers raise the possibility of universal organs for transplants

In the Lab Megan Molteni

A scientific pioneer finds herself on the sidelines of the race in xenotransplantation

A STAT Investigation Usha Lee McFarling

The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier

First Opinion Helena Roderick

Time, facial feminization, and the transgender experience

Health Tech Isabella Cueto

A new surgical robot is smaller, nimbler, and cheaper, its maker claims. But will it be better for patients?

Health Isabella Cueto

Black children have more complications during appendectomies and incur higher costs, study shows

Health Isabella Cueto

Storing donor lungs at warmer temperatures keeps them viable far longer, study finds

First Opinion Mark G. Shrime

NIH needs to create a National Institute of Surgery

Health Matthew Orr and Gideon Gil

Watch: After nearly dying in Iraq, a veteran volunteers for a surgical first to ‘help the next troops’

Health Claudia López Lloreda

Elective surgeries are being delayed again. Doctors want to handle it differently this time

Health Kevin Lin

How a 3D-printed graft could speed healing of ruptured eardrums

Health Tech Katie Palmer

The success of a novel scoliosis surgery hinges on when growth spurts hit. Can new tools better predict them?

In the Lab Megan Molteni

In mouse experiments, scientists unlock the key to scar-free skin healing

Health Theresa Gaffney

Black children are more likely to die after surgery than white counterparts, new study finds

First Opinion Jason C. Pradarelli

What Tom Brady and Beyoncé can teach surgeons: Coaching can keep you sharp

First Opinion Eric C. Sun and Anupam B. Jena

‘Overlapping surgery’ is safe for most patients, but not all

Health Christina Jewett — Kaiser Health News

Despite red flags at California surgery centers, accreditors award gold seals

First Opinion Christopher Hartnick

Taking risks in pursuit of innovation is good. So is preparing for it

First Opinion Matt Beane — The Conversation

Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery and often practice in the shadows

Health Andrew Joseph

With bariatric surgery, a patient’s starting weight makes a difference, study finds