LOS ANGELES — A pig-tailed girl whose favorite accessory is a pink stethoscope has become a symbol of pride and hope for black women in medicine and the daughters they want to inspire.

It used to be said that you couldn’t be born or buried in Gilbert.

The president of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce has received an outpouring of support after having brain surgery to remove a tumor.

Surgery to implant a shunt into a 75-year-old San Tan Valley man's brain has returned him to a nearly normal life years after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and began suffering from bladder incontinence and dementia.

This past summer, David Krausman was diagnosed with a fast-growing brain tumor, one that threatened to take his life in just over a year. It was a diagnosis he wasn't willing to accept.

Chandler Regional Medical Center recently expanded its neurological service line to include neurosurgery.

In 50 years Chandler Regional Hospital has gone from a very small community hospital with just 25 employees to a 225-bed hospital with more than 2,000 employees. Now, as their anniversary comes up on July 17 they are looking forward to the future and to continued growth.

In 50 years Chandler Regional Hospital has gone from a very small community hospital with just 25 employees to a 225-bed hospital with more than 2,000 employees. Now, as their anniversary comes up on July 17 they are looking forward to the future and to continued growth.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital, which has a clinic in Mesa, has been ranked among the top 50 children’s hospitals in half of the specialties reported in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. In the annual survey, the survey ranked in the top 50 for nephrology, neurology/neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.

Jack Condon hopes that his recent brain surgery, called deep brain stimulation, will help limit the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease, but he will have to wait weeks or months to truly feel the effects. Condon underwent two surgeries recently as part of the deep brain stimulation, but the device implanted in his brain and chest will not be turned on until an upcoming follow-up appointment.

Catholic Healthcare West’s hospitals in the East Valley are now home to a number of new physicians. Last month, Chandler Regional Medical Center welcomed eight physicians to its medical staff, including three specializing in neurosurgery.

TUCSON — Less than two weeks after surviving a bullet through the brain, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood up and looked out the window of her hospital room Wednesday as she prepares to move to Houston to begin an arduous journey of intensive mental and physical rehabilitation.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix stripped a major hospital of its affiliation with the church Tuesday because of a surgery that ended a woman's pregnancy to save her life.

Brandon Longtin loves to move around, is “joyful,” puts anything in his mouth and has a smile that lights up a room, his mom, Gretchen, says.

After generations in the East Valley, decades on Banner Health hospital boards and 15 babies born at Mesa's Banner Desert Medical Center, the Cardon family is leaving another kind of legacy with a $10 million gift to help expand Banner Children's Hospital.

Recently retired Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Lute Olson had a stroke, probably within the past year, his doctor said Tuesday.

RALEIGH, N.C.- Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy emerged from the most precarious period following surgery to treat a brain tumor without any complications, spending Tuesday walking hospital hallways, spending time with his family and "keeping up with the news of the day," his office said.

Mercy Gilbert Medical Center will double the number of beds in its intensive care unit today in a move hospital officials say is the first step toward specialized care for its most critical patients.

An orthopedic and neurosurgery unit opened Wednesday at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, which will offer the Valley’s first joint camp.

Mercy Gilbert Medical Center’s expanded intensive care unit will open Jan. 14, doubling the number of ICU beds at the hospital.

A woman is flown from a West Valley hospital to Mesa, but the delay proves fatal and she dies from internal bleeding, which one doctor calls “very fixable.”

New hospitals in Queen Creek and Casa Grande are among Catholic Healthcare West’s aggressive expansion plans across the south East Valley.

An East Valley teenager remains hospitalized in Florence, Italy, days after he was brutally attacked with a golf club in a brawl outside a nightclub.

Colds are the annoying ailment that won’t kill you but may make you want to cut off your nose to breathe again. They often make adults feel like sniffly children, yearning for their mother’s comfort.