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A mastectomy is often seen as the surest way to stop breast cancer recurring. But latest research suggests women live longer if just the tumour is removed rather than the whole breast.

In recent years, Michigan has been home to two of the largest sexual abuse scandals involving doctors in history: the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar while employed by Michigan...

Emergent colorectal cancer (CRC) resection was found to be more prevalent in patients who identified as non-White.

A recent study estimates that racial disparities have caused about 12,000 avoidable deaths over the past 2 decades.

US adults who get weight-loss surgery are more than twice as likely to get married or divorced within five years.

REETA CHAKRABARTI: Lying in bed in the early hours, I was woken by a strange and sharp pain at the top of my tummy. It was puzzling. It didnt feel like food poisoning or a stomach bug.

Colby Cosh: Have we been treating appendicitis all wrong? © Provided by National Post These are strange times if you’re a swollen, painful appendix. On Monday, the medical school of Ireland’s Royal College of Surgeons announced the outcome of a trial that looked into one of the most intriguing issues in modern medicine: can simple cases of appendicitis be treated with antibiotics alone instead of surgery? This may sound unthinkable to the layman raised in a world that still takes for gra...