Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic here have pioneered surgery to remove donor kidneys through a single incision in a bellybutton.

Dr. Inderbir S. Gill and colleagues believe that since the procedure has a reduced recovery time, it will encourage more donors to donate kidney

A 23-year-old man from New Delhi who was admitted to an Indian hospital after a five-feet-long iron rod went through his chest has survived the accident.

Calling it the "rarest of the rare surgeries," doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) saved the life of a young executive, Supratim Dutta, whose chest, lungs, stomach and liver were pierced by an iron bar

Anti-rejection drugs given after life-saving organ transplants put them at a higher risk of developing cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School implanted human kidney cancer cells into mice and then gave the rodents cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant drug often used after transplants. Mice that received the drug grew tumors at a faster rate than mice left untreated

Basketball injuries cause a large number of young athletes to suffer from elbow injuries. These injuries often require surgery, according to a study released Saturday during annual meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

The increase in the number of these injuries is due to the fact that basketball is becoming more popular according to the study's co-author Dr. E. Lyle Cain, fellowship director for the American Sports Medicine Institute at the Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center, in Birmingham, AL

World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died of natural causes late Friday, according to the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 99.

In a career spanning more than 70 years ago, DeBakey performed more than 60,000 heart surgeries. His patients include late American presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the last Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan