Doctors performing emergency heart surgery in Australia were not expecting this type of complication – a flash fire that broke out in the patient’s exposed chest cavity. The rare incident was made ...

Scalpel. Check. Sponge. Check. Fire extinguisher...check?When you think about the risks of surgery, "fire" usually doesn't come to mind. But that's what happened to a man in Australia who experienced ...

Hemothorax is bleeding and blood accumulating around your lung. This usually happens after an injury to the chest area. Some underlying health conditions can lead to bleeding in the chest cavity, as ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...

At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...

Johns Hopkins students have devised a better way to close up the chest cavity after open-heart surgery. What surprised me the most about this news is that for a half-century, this is what we've been ...

A few hours delay in reaching the hospital would have cost 20-year-old Santosh Rabat, who works in a brick kiln his life. Santosh was living with a 17-cm-long rapidly growing tumour in his chest ...