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Organ transplant box

Health By Isabella Cueto

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

Ghaziabad surgery

First Opinion By Mark G. Shrime

NIH needs to create a National Institute of Surgery

Health By Matthew Orr and Gideon Gil

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

Health By Gideon Gil

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

passing surgical scissors

Health By Claudia López Lloreda

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

biomimetic graft

Health By Kevin Lin

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

Covid & transplants illustration

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

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

blue fibroblasts

In the Lab By Megan Molteni

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

All Coverage

A STAT Investigation By Usha Lee McFarling

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

Augustus White III orthopedic surgery

A STAT Investigation By Usha Lee McFarling

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

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heart reflection

First Opinion By Helena Roderick

Time, facial feminization, and the transgender experience

Vicarious Robot

Health Tech By Isabella Cueto

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

young child surgery

Health By Isabella Cueto

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

Health Tech By Katie Palmer

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

young child surgery

Health By Theresa Gaffney

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

Surgeons working together

First Opinion By Jason C. Pradarelli

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

Surgery - operating room

First Opinion By Eric C. Sun and Anupam B. Jena

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

Surgical lights

Health By Christina Jewett — Kaiser Health News

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

Medical school

First Opinion By Christopher Hartnick

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

Robots Surgery video monitor

First Opinion By Matt Beane — The Conversation

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

Bariatric surgery

Health By Andrew Joseph

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

Stephen Phillips

Health By Eric Boodman

‘It seemed like I had climbed Mount Everest’: A rough year after daring cancer surgery

Child anesthesia

Health By Associated Press

Young brains and anesthesia: Big study suggests minimal risks

Spinal Fusion

First Opinion By Ahilan Sivaganesan, Matthew McGirt, Andrew Sumich and Clinton Devin

Oft-maligned spinal fusion surgery can make a real difference in patients

Open heart surgery

Health By Eric Boodman

Open-heart surgery devices putting patients at risk, CDC warns

Metrohealth

Hospitals By Casey Ross

Get a new body part and go home the same day: the rise of the ‘bedless hospital’

Med School Expectations

First Opinion By Akhilesh Pathipati

In med school, inconsistent expectations are bad for learning and for patients

Neck Pain

Health By Sheila Kaplan

Whistleblower case contends surgical device maker misled FDA — and patients paid the price

Delisted organs

Don't Miss By Casey Ross

Hospitals are throwing out organs and denying transplants to meet federal standards

Organ donation Map

Health By Eric Boodman

Matching hearts — and kidneys and lungs. This website makes organ transplants in the US possible

Surgery

First Opinion By Patrick Skerrett

New robot no substitute for humans in the operating room

Robotic surgery

In the Lab By Andrew Joseph

Robot surgeon performs first soft-tissue operation by itself

The Insurance Warrior

Business By Eric Boodman

An ‘insurance warrior’ fights to get pricey therapies covered