Surgery

How digital medicine is improving patient care

Young scientist helps design software that measures a surgeon’s skill

Stanford researchers launch a massive study of lung tissue — healthy and diseased — in one of their own

Babies with rare genetic disorders have chance for longer lives

Kidney removal takes longer and costs more when robots assist surgeons, a new study says.

Stanford’s heart transplant breakthrough precipitated years of protocol advances

The enormity of the first U.S. adult heart transplant

Using heart patients' own tissue to repair damaged valves

Patients were bothered by the sounds of their eyeballs, their digestive systems, their blood. One look in their eyes, and a surgeon-scientist knew why

Predicting a speedy recovery