Technology is enabling increasingly lifelike models of organs to help doctors practice operations.

The Howard University surgeon was the first African American president of the American Cancer Society and mentored thousands of medical students.

The robotic catheter can guide its own movements within the heart of a live mammal to the site of a leaky valve replacement.

The drugs lead to widespread, predictable changes in brain waves that can help anesthesiologists personalize anesthesia and develop anesthetic-based treatments.

Drugs that doctors use to sedate patients during traumatic medical procedures act on neural receptors to alter brain activity.

Now two years old, the Delaney twins were born joined at the head and were successfully separated in June 2017.

Primates receiving heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs have survived more than six months, a new study reveals.

The neurodegenerative disease shares protein clumps in common with appendixes, perhaps explaining why removing the organ is protective.

Three researchers, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, who worked on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification win the 2018 award.