Surgery Blog: Did You Know?

Thanksgiving Week Is GERD Awareness Week— Time to Eat and Drink Wisely

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Our Surgical and Nonsurgical Weight Loss Procedures Can Effectively Treat Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. It can cause blindness, nerve damage, kidney disease, and other health problems if it's not… read more

Our Lung Cancer Screening Program Is Saving More Lives

November is officially Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This all started as Lung Cancer Awareness Day back in 1995. As the lung cancer community and the lung cancer movement grew, the awareness activities increased and grew into… read more

Restoring Sensation and Function in the Face and Mouth

The trigeminal nerve — the fifth cranial nerve — is a complex nerve responsible for sensation in the face and motor functions such as biting and chewing.

The trigeminal nerve is the largest of the cranial nerves that… read more

FAQs about Robotic Surgery for Cancer Treatment — What Patients Need to Know

The surgical robot made its debut in the late 1990s, and it is increasingly used to perform a wide range of operations, including procedures to treat different cancers.

Now, surgeons are using… read more

Pediatric surgery is a distinctive surgical specialty, provided by highly skilled surgeons formally trained in general surgery and further trained in the intricacies of treating smaller or not fully developed patients, with unique surgical needs, including those not yet born.

The… read more