In medicine, surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική, or chirurgical, and latin chirurgiae meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason. An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply surgery. In this context, the verb operating means performing surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse. The patient or subject that the surgery is being performed on can be a person or an animal. A surgeon is a person who performs operations on patients. Persons described as surgeons are commonly medical practitioners, but the term is also applied to dentists and veterinarians. Surgery can last from minutes to hours, but is typically not an ongoing or periodic type of treatment.The term surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian.

U.S. teens in sprawling counties are twice as likely to drive more than 20 miles per day as teens in compact counties, increasing accident risk, a study said.

The Chinese are looking to weather control to ensure a rain free ceremony. With seven months until the 2008 Olympic Games get under way; the Beijing Meteorological Bureau had developed a method to minimize rain on the day.

Yesterday during the lightning round, Jim Cramer poo-pooed my pick of American Capital Strategies (ACAS). I found it ironic someone called in the day of my blog post. Let's look at Cramer's pick from last year: Cramer's number one growth stock for 2007 is the NYSE Group or NYX. "If you're...

February 14th has been the day to express romantic love in western culture dating back to early Roman times. However, commercially made greeting cards, mass-produced chocolates, sweat-shop lingerie, blood diamonds and imported flowers did not join the tradition until the 20th century.

There are many opinions as to who was the original Valentine, with the most popular theory that it was a clergyman who was executed for secretly marrying couples in ancient Rome. In any event, in 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honor St. Valentine.