A kitchen knife sliced through the skin, arteries, tendons and nerves of the second knuckle of the four fingers of Christian Dietrich's right hand.

Dr. Gordon Klatt, an oncology surgeon, decided 26 years ago he needed to do something personal to help raise cancer awareness and raise funds to assist cancer patients. So Klatt walked and ran around a track for 24 hours with the motto that, since cancer never sleeps, he would not either.

Mesa police were able to arrest a 34-year-old man on Thursday after a surgeon removed a 9 mm bullet from the back of a woman he is accused of shooting at an apartment complex on Monday.

She is only a teenager in the world of PhD's and graduate students, but this future brain surgeon realizes she is getting the experience of a lifetime.

She is only a teenager in the world of PhD's and graduate students, but this future brain surgeon realizes she is getting the experience of a lifetime.

She is only a teenager in the world of PhD's and graduate students, but this future brain surgeon realizes she is getting the experience of a lifetime.

Scottsdale cosmetic surgeon Semone Rochlin is offering patients a unique plan to help them cope with the economic crisis and the difficulty of getting loans for treatments such as tummy tucks, facial Botox injections and breast augmentation.

PHOENIX - Doctors at Phoenix Children's Hospital successfully separated conjoined twins after more than 12 hours of surgery Thursday night but more operations loomed.

PHOENIX — A surgeon at the Mayo Clinic Hospital faces a disciplinary hearing and a possible lawsuit after he snapped a photo of a patient’s genitals during surgery.

LOS ANGELES - A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by Sharon Stone against a Beverly Hills doctor she accused of implying that he had performed cosmetic surgery on her famous face, a lawyer said Tuesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. - His house on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans bears the name Tsa-La-Gi, "medicine man" in Cherokee. If he ever gets back to it, Dr. Norman McSwain may want to rename it "rain man."

Heila Gibbs, a Gilbert resident, needed surgery after she tore tendons in her knee. The hospital care she received was the finest in the world, she said.

Surgeons at Mesa’s Banner Desert Medical Center and Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa will train Wednesday for new minimally invasive surgical procedures in a mobile operating room on a truck.

East Valley residents who have diabetes can learn more about foot care during a free presentation 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at Mercy Gilbert Medical Office Building, 3420 S. Mercy Road.