Doctors in Sri Lanka set a new Guinness World Record when they removed the world’s largest kidney stone from a retired soldier earlier this month.

“That messenger is Dr. Kesava Dave. When lots of doctors said ‘no,’ he said ‘yes’ and did the miracle 9-hour surgery. May God bless his hands to save more lives because he can and he will.

A Mumbai-based eye surgeon operated on a blind man from Lahore at an eye hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Pakistani patient couldn't get an Indian medical visa despite months of follow-up. Dr ...

Doctors performed surgery on Coonge on June 1 at the Columbo Army Hospital in Sri Lanka's capital city, the Sri Lanka Army said in a news release issued this week.

Sri Lanka’s limited free public health system, like public education, has been systematically run down and undermined by consecutive Colombo governments.

Wendy Rappaport has filed a lawsuit alleging that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen, leaving her with advanced kidney disease.

Surgeons at a hospital in Sri Lanka said a patient underwent surgery to remove a massive kidney stone that measured 5.26 inches long and weighed 1.76 pounds.

An exodus of health care workers is straining Sri Lanka’s stressed medical system. Doctors are weighing their professional responsibility against their own well-being.

Srilanka, June 18 -- The Colombo Magistrate's Court has remanded three suspects, including a specialist doctor attached to the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, in connection with the alleged sale of h ...

Thomas J. Shaknovksy had his license suspended by the Florida surgeon general after he was accused of removing a patients liver instead of the spleen back in August.

A shortage of medicine caused by an economic crisis in Sri Lanka could soon cause deaths, doctors said, as hospitals are forced to postpone life-saving procedures for their patients because they ...

Don’t fall ill or get into accidents: That’s the advice doctors in Sri Lanka are giving patients as the country's economic crisis leaves its health care system short of drugs and other vital ...