A new procedure may means less pain and a quicker recovery for hemorrhoid sufferers. Hemorrhoids are a cluster of veins that can swell due to constipation or pregnancy. Darla Fisher said she first ...

Stapling was introduced in the late 1990s, and in some small studies was shown to be less painful and faster to heal than conventional surgery. A few short-term studies -- with less than a year of ...

This procedure, under clinical trials at nine centers across the country, achieves the stomach-reducing results of the normal stapling procedure, but does it using a special tool passed down through ...