A chest tube is a thin, plastic tube that a doctor inserts into the pleural space, which is the area between the chest wall and the lungs. Doctors may need to use a chest tube for many purposes, such ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...

Our Baylor Medicine surgeons are full-time faculty at the Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. All surgical procedures are performed at the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical ...

Doctors discovered Anna Cole, 13, had a 5-pound benign tumor in her chest. Jan. 13, 2012— -- Anna Cole was only 10 years old when doctors found a tumor the size of a volleyball growing in the ...

Gruesome details of a deadly chest wound were divulged in court Monday in the trial of Abel Cedeno, the teen accused of fatally stabbing a classmate. A doctor from the Office of the Chief Medical ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- A 23-year-old man was pronounced dead after being found with a chest wound near an east side apartment complex early Sunday morning, according to the Madison Police Department.