A review in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology describes the mesentery, which researchers have recently reclassified as an organ. By Sarah G. Miller.

See what it can do. A new surgical robot can make the micro-scale movements needed for a particularly delicate procedure: cataract surgery. Axsis, a system developed by Cambridge Consultants, is a small, teleoperated robot with two arms tipped with tiny pincers. It’s designed to operate on the eye with greater accuracy than a human. Globally, 20 million people have cataract surgery every year, making it one of the most common surgeries in the world. Although complications are very rare, they still affect tens of thousands of people.

A patient's fart during a surgical procedure allegedly sparked a fire which caused her to be seriously burnt, the Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward said..

3D print your way to a perfect implant. By Andy Coghlan.

Canadian surgeons are urging people to throw out wire-bristled barbecue brushes, because none of them have figured out a surefire way of removing the wires when they get stuck in people's throats.

Zion Harvey made history in July 2015 when he became the first child to receive a double hand transplant after losing his hands and feet years earlier to an infection. It’s been one year since the surgery, and Harvey’s doctors say he’s doing well and can throw a baseball, write in his journal and make himself lunch.

If you need a new heart, you want Dr. Gonzo leading the search. The charismatic head of the transplant team at Baylor takes chances on donors others doctors don't want, while maintaining the same survival rate. Here is an exclusive inside look at how he does it. By Matt Goodman. (March, 2016)

Medical literature is full of stories of people who have operated on themselves. Surprisingly, some lived to tell the tale. By Adam Taylor.

Surgery performed by robots is just as successful as operations carried out by surgeons, a major trial has found. The study of prostate cancer patients found those whose gland was removed by a machine were doing as well after three months as those who went under the knife in the traditional way. They experienced less pain doing day to day activities a week later, and reported better overall physic

A Beijing University hospital is believed to have performed the world’s first successful spinal operation with a 3D printed implant. The spinal substitute is a 3D printed titanium mesh tube implanted to reconstruct the spinal link and support between the patient’s chest and abdomen. Two weeks before the operation, the patient, surnamed Yuan, was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on his backbone. The only effective treatment was to remove five sections of his backbone and to replace them with a 19-centimetre artificial substitute.

Machines closer to replicating human doctors

Cerebrospinal fluid leak. Interesting tale of a chap with a series of such leaks, culminating in some nice surgery by Dr Janakiram.

Poor kid.

Polyps! I love polyps! Not enough to want any, mind you...

Patients with appendix cancer are often told there’s no cure. Google tells them otherwise. And so begins an odyssey to get the Mother of All Surgeries. By Eric Boodman.

It was supposed to be a simple operation at one of Boston’s greatest hospitals. It turned out to be anything but. When the medical system failed Amy Reed and Hooman Noorchashm, the couple embarked on a journey that was part vengeance, part whistle-blower, and part David and Goliath. The fight changed their lives…and saved thousands more. By Sandy Hingston.

Nasty place to have a cyst.

A Dallas anesthesiologist who submitted bogus payment claims — including one when he was actually under anesthesia for surgery himself — has been found guilty of bilking millions from the U. S. government. Dr. Richard Ferdinand Toussaint Jr. was convicted on all seven counts of fraud Thursday after a four-day trial in a Dallas federal court. Toussaint, 58, is the co-founder of Forest Park Medical Center, which had a history of paying physician kickbacks before it went bankrupt.

This is a strange one. Long video warning.