Dr. Ernest Braxton, a neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a breakthrough procedure at Vail Health by completing a successful spine surgery with his patient awake. The ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The notion of surgery can be unnerving for most of us, so would you choose to be awake for your procedure? As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, it's an increasingly popular trend ...

Selena Campione suffered from puzzling and debilitating symptoms for almost a year before she was scheduled to get brain surgery. "I never had any medical problems before in my life," Campione tells ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Dr. Asif Ilyas, a hand and wrist surgeon, was about to close his patient’s wound. But first he offered her the opportunity to behold the source of her radiating pain: a band of tendons that looked ...

Are you able to stay awake while surgeons take a look inside your body? “Awake Surgery” is TLC’s newest limited series that only has three episodes. The show will premiere on Monday, December 14 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Imagine being out of the country and needing life-saving surgery – it happened to one dad while on vacation with his two young boys. It turns out, the sun and fun combined with ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can allow their tremors and seizures to abate somewhat. The procedure can improve the quality of life for these patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 1,011 patients undergoing wide-awake hand surgery, 4.3% of patients had superficial skin infections and no ...

Tampa based Celebrity Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon Dr. Meegan Gruber expands an interactive approach that allows real-time implant sizing confirmation during surgery, rather than waiting to see ...