Pregnant women who underwent immediate surgery to treat a ruptured or abscessed appendix had lower risk of infectious complications compared with those whose complicated appendicitis was managed ...

Last week, Kardashian took to Instagram to reveal that she had undergone "urgent fetal surgery" to save her baby's life. Kourtney Kardashian is sharing more pictures of her-- and her baby bump-- after ...

More than 40 surgical procedures that pregnant doctors can perform while following safety protocols have been endorsed by the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) and the ...

Pre-surgery pregnancy tests can pose ethical questions in the case of producing a positive pregnancy test in states where abortion is banned or restricted, said Dr. Trisha Pasricha, a ...

A hysterectomy, the surgical removal of the uterus, typically marks the end of a woman’s reproductive potential. Yet, a few ...

It was in the midst of navigating an onslaught of postpartum challenges mere days after childbirth that Laura Reitsma, then 36, first felt a lump in her right breast. Yet another problem to tackle ...

Christina S., 32, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer while pregnant with her second child and underwent a mastectomy ...

At 21 I started feeling excruciating pain and hours later found out I had an ectopic pregnancy. My tube ruptured while I was in the operating room, and the surgery ended up taking five hours. The ...

A woman’s pregnancy should’ve been terminated — because it directly threatened her life — but a crisis pregnancy center nurse failed to diagnose it as unviable, a recently filed lawsuit in ...

A woman needed emergency surgery after her ectopic pregnancy was misdiagnosed at a crisis pregnancy center in Massachusetts, a lawsuit says. Zolnierek Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman’s pregnancy ...