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Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK.

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball

By Victor Tangermann

A UnitedHealthcare rep called a surgeon in the middle of a procedure to ask if her breast cancer patient's overnight stay was "justified."

UnitedHealthcare Calls Doctor Mid Surgery To Ask If Her Patient’s Overnight Stay Is Necessary

By Noor Al-Sibai

A dental robotics company claims to have used an AI-controlled robot to perform the first fully autonomous dental procedure on a human.

Prosthetics and Devices

Robot Performs First Ever Fully Autonomous Dental Surgery on Live Patient

By Victor Tangermann

A man in Florida had such an epic sneeze that he pushed his guts outside his body after he had surgery 15 days ago.

Man Sneezes So Hard That His Intestines Burst Through Surgical Wound

By Sharon Adarlo

In a study involving 47 participants, a whopping 89 percent reported personality changes following organ transplantation surgery.

Organ Transplants Can Change Personality and Even Sexual Orientation, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery.

Prosthetics and Devices

Surgeons Use Apple VR Headset During Spinal Operation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman's doctors found a surgical instrument the size of a dinner plate inside her abdomen a whopping 18 months after she'd had surgery.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Discover Instrument Left in Patient’s Body For 18 Months After Surgery

By Noor Al-Sibai

Preying upon male insecurity, one urologist's seemingly-miraculous penis enlargement implant may be too good to be true.

Prosthetics and Devices

Terrible Things Are Happening to Men Who Got Penis Enlargement

By Noor Al-Sibai

A San Diego hospital is refusing to halt surgeries in spite of concerns over strange particles found on surgical trays.

Prosthetics and Devices

Hospital Refuses to Pause Surgeries After Finding Unknown Contaminants on Equipment Trays

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’ve Devised a Way to 3D Print Inside the Human Body

By Victor Tangermann

A provocative court case may prove whether or not a man's recurrent nightmares were evidence of surgery malpractice or of an anesthetic hangover.

Health & Medicine

Man Claims He Woke Up Partway Through Spine Surgery

By Noor Al-Sibai

Surgery had to quickly be performed to remove an unexploded shell lodged in a Russian soldier's chest with no guarantee it wouldn't detonate at any moment.

Unexploded Shell Removed From Soldier’s Chest by Surgeons Wearing Body Armor

By Frank Landymore

Some short men are so insecure about their heights that they are paying doctors to break their bones during surgical leg-lengthening procedures.

Health & Medicine

Inside the Minds of the Short Men Who Get Their Legs Broken to Add 3-6 Inches of Height

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 45-year-old American man landed himself in the hospital after his partner accidentally injected his penis with insulation foam to cure his impotance.

Man Horribly Injures Penis After Injecting It with Insulation Foam

By Tony Ho Tran

A British transplant surgeon has finally been stripped of his medical license after infamously branding his initials into patients' organs in late 2013.

Surgeon Stripped of License for Carving His Initials Into Patients’ Organs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man recently showed up to the hospital to have over two pounds of metal nails, screws, and other miscellanea removed from his stomach.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Alarmed by Man Who Quit Drinking and Started Swallowing Metal Nails and Screws

By Dan Robitzski