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Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since surgery a week earlier

The Vatican says Pope Francis has “reacted well” to planned intestinal surgery at a Rome hospital

Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

USC Trojans long snapper Jake Olson has been blind since he was 12 years old. On Saturday, in the team’s season opener against Western Michigan, he took the field for the first time, silencing the doubters, and making his dreams come true.

After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...

22-year-old Joe DiMeo of New Jersey is the world’s first successful face and double-hand transplant.

A California lawmaker wants to ban some medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children until they are at least 6-years-old

A former economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania who beat his wife to death inside their King of Prussia, Pennsylvania home was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to his daughter.

When Ervina and Prefina were born two years ago, they were conjoined at the skull, back-to-back. For most of their lives, they never saw the other’s face except when they looked at their reflections in a mirror. In early June, the twins finally had the chance to gaze directly at each other after 30 doctors and nurses separated them during...

A new U.S. study shows Black children die more often after common surgeries than whites.

Governor Gavin Newsom gave the all-clear for hospitals to resume essential elective surgeries, but what does this mean for surgeons? According to some surgeons, they’re a lot more susceptible to catching the coronavirus and are placing additional measures to keep them and their patients safe. Dr. Michael McHale serves as the surgical director of perioperative services at UC San...

Sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands… While practicing social distancing and being in quarantine, Dax Shepard decided to remove the pin from his own broken arm. While it’s unclear how the 45-year-old actor broke his hand, it appears he’s not afraid to repair it. Trolling her husband over his pin removal, Kristen Bell cheekily captioned...

As COVID-19 has spread across the country in recent months, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, nonemergency procedures that are scheduled in advance. Cosmetic surgery, hernia repair and cancer operations are among the wide range of elective surgeries that come with varying degrees of complexity and urgency, NBC News reports. The American Hospital Association published a road map to resuming elective surgeries on April...

A doctor reported over 800 cases to go through in one hospital alone, with medical professionals conducting rigorous tests to prevent coronavirus contamination. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2020.

A Pennsylvania woman who rescued a piglet that was darting in and out of rush-hour traffic is getting help from local businesses to fund a surgery it needs to survive.

The most important thing to know about training your new pup, according to Petco dog trainer Chloe Sternlicht, is that dogs respond best to positive reinforcement. So be patient when Fido makes a mistake and smother him with praise and treats when he get it right. Sternlicht gives some tips for getting your dog to respond to basic commands.

Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she...

If you snore or have sleep apnea, there is a breakthrough treatment that may help, without the awkward masks typically used by chronic sufferers.

A tiny baby born four months early and weighing just 15-ounces has already made a name for herself at the San Diego Blood Bank.

Jake Lamb knocked in the game-tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and then scored the winning run in the bottom of the 12th as the Diamondbacks came from behind to beat the Dodgers 2-1 on Saturday night at Chase Field in Phoenix.