If you've ever wondered about what goes on in the operating room — whether you've been a patient or not — then your curiosity is about to be satiated. Shannon Fagan / Getty Images Recently, I spoke ...

Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine students developed a backpack-sized mobile surgical kit that is designed for minor ...

Whether it's an impoverished nation, a battlefield or a disaster site, there are places where doctors have to perform surgery outside of a sterile operating room. That's where the SurgiField system ...

Operating rooms are critical to surgical care and hospital revenue, but inefficiencies in the OR are a challenge at nearly ...

All you need is a headset and smartphone to enter a virtual world of gaming, movies, travel – and now surgery. Health care company Medical Realities is using virtual reality to transport people ...

In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who’s who—at least for outsiders. Patients getting wheeled in might not realize that salespeople working on ...

The first prefabricated operating room in the world with fully automated disinfection technology opened recently at the University of Rochester Medicine Orthopedics Surgery Center in Henrietta, N.Y.

Anyone entering the operating rooms of the Martini-Klinik at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE) through the sluice corridor enters a world ...