The organization’s latest guidance is a departure from the prevailing views of several other major medical organizations. By Andrew Jacobs The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended on ...

That’s how much money a 22-year-old woman just won in a New York lawsuit against her doctors. She sued them for medical malpractice after they cut off her breasts when she was 16. They told her she ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Lindsey Vonn had a "successful" third surgery on her broken left leg following her downhill crash at the Olympics, the American skier said Wednesday. Vonn posted an update ...

In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards. By Andrew Jacobs In the first malpractice verdict against ...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) on Tuesday published a position statement recommending that surgeons delay “gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery” until a patient is ...

More than half of people who receive antibiotics to treat appendicitis do not see their disease come back 10 years after the initial illness, a new study shows. The data come from one of the first ...

Septal myectomy removes part of a thickened septum to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It can improve severe symptoms that do not respond to ...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons has issued a broad recommendation against gender transition surgeries for youths, becoming the first major medical association in the United States to narrow ...

The Trump administration celebrated a recent statement from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which recommends that doctors delay gender-related surgery until a patient is at least 19 years ...

As it stands, traditional Medicare requires prior authorization for a substantially smaller set of procedures and services than most Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare services that typically require ...