With the advent of plastic-surgery TV shows, patients are more informed than ever—perhaps too informed?—about what they’ll look like after their procedures as well as what the procedures themselves ...

He says doctors are now using conscious sedation, or twilight sedation, instead of general anesthesia for certain patients undergoing TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Dr. Heyrich says ...

Could a medical procedure you don’t even remember give you a stress disorder? By Kate Johnson The doctor ordered a “push” on my sedative, and I succumbed to the sweet blackness. But then something ...

Beneath green surgical sheets and a tangle of tubes, a healthy young ewe is undergoing a heart-lung bypass procedure to help answer one of several urgent questions about a pillar of modern medicine: ...