Rare but potentially fatal condition called pediatric renovascular hypertension can be cured or eased by surgery to re-route blood vessels near the kidneys

Physicians at Mayo Clinic are now using tiny glass bubbles filled with radioactive material to deliver high doses of tumor-killing radiation directly to liver tumors. They say the procedure is better tolerated than other forms of intra-arterial liver cancer treatments, and may be the best option for some patients who aren't candidates for other treatments, including surgery or liver transplantation.

Over the past 3 decades, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, or balloon angioplasty) has significantly changed the treatment of coronary artery disease (narrowing of the arteries supplying the heart muscle).

An emulsion of olive oil, egg yolk and glycerine might be just the recipe to keep heart patients away from the operating room and cardiac bypass surgery.

A new study has found that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking at the one year mark. Sixty percent of patients who started smoking again did so within two months of surgery.

Data collected from robotic medical tools could improve operating room skills

Surgery is the only potential for cure for patients with pancreatic cancer; unsatisfied with current options, an OHSU gastrointestinal surgeon is developing a program he hopes will lead to earlier diagnosis, quicker intervention, more lives saved