Watch surgeon Calvin Coffey deliver a TEDx talk on his recent discovery that the large abdominal tissue is a single, coordinated structure.

A clinical trial is underway to see if suspended animation, in which the body is cooled to 10–15 °Celsius, could slow patients’ decline and give doctors time to operate.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

By bringing genetics into clinical medicine, the University of British Columbia medical geneticist helped to identify the gene mutations responsible for many rare diseases.

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.