Authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that a simple, continuous stitching technique to repair tears to the perineum after vaginal delivery can prevent one woman in six from ...

Practicing sutures on an orange helps medical learners develop hand control, stitch precision, and proper spacing before ...

For the past century, there’s been little improvement to the tools used to re-connect severed blood vessels: a needle and thread. Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed an alternative ...