The first attempts at medicine were prompted by the natural instinct for survival and desire to help fellow human bei...

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Over 100 years ago, basic technologies such as disinfection, hemostasis, and anesthesia finally allowed surgeons to u...

Exploration of the brain began in the distant past, but it remains a secret world whose mysteries are still not fully...

Cardiac surgery is the most recently developed of all surgical fields, and had not even been performed 70 years ago. ...

Organ transplants prolong human life, and are considered the greatest medical wonder of the 20th century. But as the ...

Today, surgery can deal with almost any disease. But there is one that continues to frustrate it - cancer. Humans hav...

It has been almost 200 years since modern surgery was born. With the development of science and human society, surger...