The case predates the previous earliest evidence for a complex medical procedure by roughly 24,000 years and suggests the advent of surgery occurred thousands ... remains while working in a region of ...

Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching ...

A 105-year-old man has got a new lease of life after undergoing a hip replacement surgery at a Delhi hospital, with the doctor who operated on him, claiming that he was the “oldest person ...