Gallstones - When in doubt, cut it out - We've been trying to make gallstones disappear for several thousand years, yet the magic act still hasn't been perfected. Although gallstones can occu...

Keyhole surgery - Recently, minimally invasive, or keyhole, surgery (laparoscopy see ... ...

Keyhole surgery - The doctor as video games player - Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...

Case study: Risks of Keyhole surgery - In August 1991 I underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder via keyhole surgery) and shortly afterward experienced pain on...

Endoscopy - Dangers of the optic ‘scope’ - Endoscopy is the direct visualisation of the digestive tract using an endoscope, a flexible tube with a camera mounted on it that is small enough to p...

Hernia: Keyhole surgery is no better than a standard op - Laparoscopic – or keyhole - surgery is the new, less invasive method that allows the patient to leave the hospital after just a few days.

Gallstones: - If there's one thing you like to talk about, it's gallstones. Your suggestions are still coming in, weeks after someone wrote about having the condit...

Gallstones: - Gallstones is a subject that had a good airing earlier this year, so when a reader raised the problem again last week we knew we were going to be inun...