Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Medical device maker Vertos Medical raked in $26 million on Wednesday in a Series C funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The company, which is based in Aliso Viejo, California, develops ...

Ray Avila lay on the operating table with a messy, fist-size hole in his back, as Dr. Giancarlo Barolat burned flesh, sliced fat and peeled cartilage to make the wound even bigger. Barolat scraped ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – If you suffer from nerve pain caused by spinal stenosis, you may benefit from a relatively new, minimally invasive procedure that helps create space for your spinal cord ...

Back pain can be a silent disruptor. It is not only painful but also disturbs sleep, saps your energy, and slowly erodes your quality of life. The pain can become so constant and debilitating for some ...

Every year, thousands of people undergo knee replacement surgery to relive knee pain, and now, there's a procedure that uses radio frequency to block the pain.Dr. Orlando Landrum, a pain specialist ...

Doctors use blood patch procedures to treat spinal headaches, rare events that may happen after epidurals or other medical procedures involving the spine. In a blood patch your own blood is injected ...

St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center will host a study of a new procedure that could provide patients with an alternative to spinal fusions. The Total Posterior Spine System, or TOPS, is an ...

According to a new national coverage determination, CMS said Medicare will not reimburse percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis patients. CMS officials said spinal ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A Rose Hill teenager is recovering and walking following the first successful Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) procedure in the state of Kansas. Isabella Hillman, 14, has ...