Battlefield surgery in the Middle Ages was crude, painful, and often fatal. Surgeons lacked anesthesia, antibiotics, and basic hygiene. Wounds were cauterized with boiling oil, packed with fat, or ...

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Livigno is nicknamed “Little Tibet” for its historic isolation and the snow-clad peaks that surround it. This village near ...

Alice Roberts, the pink-haired professor, reminds us that she also has degrees in anatomy, medicine and surgery, as she ...

The eminent surf historian has a point. Love it, or loathe it, localism is an intrinsic part of the surfing ecosystem. In ...

A person commuting to work everyday may be jealous of someone working from home; people with no kids may want a kid looking ...

Are y'all ready to go Beyond the Gates? This past week, Ashley got a likely excuse from Grayson, Jacob did his best Boyz n ...

A shocking diagnosis led a writer to focus on the dispassionate medical details, until his body jolted him into confronting what he hadn’t. By Ethan Hauser Ethan Hauser is an editor on the Culture ...

In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. By Andrew Jacobs In the first malpractice verdict against ...

Feb 10 - Everton midfielder Jack Grealish has confirmed his season is over after undergoing surgery on a stress fracture in his foot, dealing a major blow to his hopes of making England's squad for ...

The nation’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until patients turn 19, changing the group’s stance on the politically ...

The three-time Super Bowl winner, including once as a head coach, calls it a “common” procedure in a social media post. Rick Stroud is a sports reporter covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Reach him at ...