Dr. Ernest Braxton, a neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a breakthrough procedure at Vail Health by completing a successful spine surgery with his patient awake. The ...

Are you able to stay awake while surgeons take a look inside your body? “Awake Surgery” is TLC’s newest limited series that only has three episodes. The show will premiere on Monday, December 14 ...

MIAMI, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Imagine being out of the country and needing life-saving surgery. It happened to one dad while on vacation with his two young boys. It turns out, the sun and fun ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can allow their tremors and seizures to abate somewhat. The procedure can improve the quality of life for these patients ...

Selena Campione suffered from puzzling and debilitating symptoms for almost a year before she was scheduled to get brain surgery. "I never had any medical problems before in my life," Campione tells ...

Rhonda Miller was secured to the operating room table with her left side facing up, nearly 9 inches of her scalp pulled back and skull removed, when she said, "I'm bored." She didn't know how long ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Imagine being out of the country and needing life-saving surgery – it happened to one dad while on vacation with his two young boys. It turns out, the sun and fun combined with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 1,011 patients undergoing wide-awake hand surgery, 4.3% of patients had superficial skin infections and no ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

A musician undergoing complex brain surgery in Italy played the saxophone during his entire 9-hour operation. The team at Rome’s Paideia International Hospital operated on the 35-year-old man, ...