Scalpel. Check. Sponge. Check. Fire extinguisher...check?When you think about the risks of surgery, "fire" usually doesn't come to mind. But that's what happened to a man in Australia who experienced ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...

Hemothorax is bleeding and blood accumulating around your lung. This usually happens after an injury to the chest area. Some underlying health conditions can lead to bleeding in the chest cavity, as ...

At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...

Johns Hopkins students have devised a better way to close up the chest cavity after open-heart surgery. What surprised me the most about this news is that for a half-century, this is what we've been ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...

A fire raged through the chest cavity of a man during heart surgery in a rare incident, according to doctors. Surgeons were performing emergency heart surgery on an unnamed 60-year-old patient, when ...

Gurugram, Sep 14 (IANS) A 17-year-old has been given a new lease of life after doctors here successfully operated and removed 1.9 kg tumour from his chest cavity. The patient consulted doctors at ...

A few hours delay in reaching the hospital would have cost 20-year-old Santosh Rabat, who works in a brick kiln his life. Santosh was living with a 17-cm-long rapidly growing tumour in his chest ...

Your rib cage consists of 12 pairs of curved ribs that are evenly matched on both sides. Men and women have the same number of ribs. It’s a myth that men have one less pair of ribs than women. Your ...

A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...