The idea of having brain surgery while awake might seem amazing enough — but one Florida man took it a step further and played the guitar while doctors removed his tumor. The neurological team from ...

A surgeon in Austin, Texas, was in the middle of surgery when she was notified of a phone call from the patient’s insurance provider. Dr. Elisabeth Potter is a board-certified plastic surgeon who ...

LONDON — Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw ...

Playing calming instrumental music during surgery can improve patient recovery, a new study says. The peer-reviewed study was carried out at the Lok Nayak Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College in ...

Rome — A musician had a brain tumor removed in Italy this week in a nine-hour surgery that he spent not only awake and fully conscious, but playing his saxophone. The 35-year-old male patient had the ...

A recent study published in PLOS One and conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston reveals virtual reality use during hand surgery led to significant reductions in ...

A patient with headphones playing music during surgery in a hospital in Delhi Under the harsh lights of an operating theatre in the Indian capital, Delhi, a woman lies motionless as surgeons prepare ...

DENVER (KDVR) – A woman who awakened during hernia surgery but remained unable to move or communicate with her doctors while the incisions were being made is now suing her anesthesiologist, the nurse ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno is seeing an uptick in patients from Madera County -- including state prison inmates from Chowchilla following the closure of the Madera Community ...