Surgery is scary. It usually involves having your body cut open, and sometimes things go wrong. You react badly to anesthesia, or suffer breathing or heart problems. Or maybe the surgeon nicks a blood ...

Most of our patients don't spend the night in the hospital following their joint replacement surgery. During your stay, your care team will do everything possible to ensure you are comfortable and ...

One of the patients was a 15-year-old boy, who will now need to do follow-up testing to ensure he is disease-free for the ...

Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received a $10 million gift from the Robert & Lynda Carter Altman Family Foundation to establish a surgical education center. The gift, ...

Florida has 15 hospitals included on Healthgrades’ Top 50 Best Hospitals for Surgical Care list, the most of any U.S. state. Healthgrades published its 2026 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 28.