“ THE escape from pain in surgical operations is a chimera which it is idle to follow up to-day. ‘ Knife ’ and ‘ pain ’ in surgery are two words which are always inseparable in the minds of patients, ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Dr. David Schneider: Prior to the 1870s, no one believed in germs. You believed in bad air. Maybe it’s the ...

Ira Rutkow’s “Empire of the Scalpel” is by turns fascinating and ghastly. By Henry Marsh When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. EMPIRE OF ...

As you and everybody in the world with an Internet connection now knows, Angelina Jolie had her fallopian tubes and uterus removed as part of an ongoing series of preventative surgeries for cancer.

“The history of surgery is a series of awe-inspiring, discrete triumphs,” according to this smart survey from historian and surgeon Rutkow (Seeking the Cure). He begins in the Stone Age, when ...

Before there were medicines to sedate and soothe patients, there was opium, mandrake juice … and hypnosis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...