Tomophobia is a rare phobia of medical procedures and surgery. It is a specific type of phobia — a fear of a particular trigger that leads to an out-of-proportion reaction in people with the condition ...

Medical tourism is nothing new. People have been seeking more affordable, sometimes higher-quality care for as long as humans could cross borders. In today’s world that usually means travel to foreign ...

New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole underwent his elbow surgery earlier this week, as expected. The procedure itself was probably what the Yankees, Cole and his surgeon expected. So, what, exactly, does ...

First lady Melania Trump, 48, underwent an embolization procedure Monday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat a benign kidney condition, according to a statement issued by ...

With any medical procedure—whether surgery, an MRI, or placing tubes in a child's ears—little kids don’t understand what’s happening even after it’s explained. They don’t know what’s wrong with their ...