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Patients waking up during surgery is more common than previously thought, a study has found. Many more people may be waking up during operations

A Danish study has cast doubts about the long term benefit of knee arthroscopy, saying the surgery is potentially harmful. The long-term benefits

Doctors in Houston have successfully performed the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant. Texas doctors have performed the world's

Parliament's health select committee has heard it would be difficult to recruit a new team to perform gender reassignment surgeries in New Zealand.

Teenagers who want cosmetic surgery may soon have to pass a psychological assessment before going under the knife. And the Medical Board of Australia also wants

Despite hospitals failing to reach key waiting period benchmarks, a record 170,190 elective surgery patients have been treated in Victorian hospitals.

The number of knee replacement surgeries being performed has skyrocketed due to an ageing population, obesity and younger people having the surgery. Scientists

British scientists using reprogrammed cells have produced a working thymus, a vital immune system "nerve centre" located near the heart.