A new procedure may means less pain and a quicker recovery for hemorrhoid sufferers. Hemorrhoids are a cluster of veins that can swell due to constipation or pregnancy. Darla Fisher said she first ...

This procedure, under clinical trials at nine centers across the country, achieves the stomach-reducing results of the normal stapling procedure, but does it using a special tool passed down through ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While a "stapling" operation for severe hemorrhoids may be less painful and easier to recover from than actual surgical removal, which has been considered the "gold ...

The spinal stapling procedure takes two hours. During surgery, inch-long staples made of a high-tech temperature-sensitive metal alloy are implanted using a camera called a thoracoscope. Children with ...

Pharyngeal pouch, which is also known as Zenker's diverticulum, occurs when a piece of the pharyngeal lining herniates through the muscles of the pharyngeal wall. It occurs mainly in older people, ...