If you've ever witnessed someone on a heavy dose of painkillers, you know people can do or say all sorts of stuff. Similar ...

There’s a strange kind of honesty that slips out when a person is drifting through anesthesia. In those hazy moments, fears, secrets, and hilarious nonsense spill out without warning, turning a ...

Leonie Helm is a Newsweek Life Reporter and is based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on all things life, from abolishing the monarchy to travel to aesthetic medicine. Leonie joined Newsweek in ...

Colorado coach Deion Sanders, "Coach Prime," faced his 16th surgery in three years for recurring leg blood clots. Despite the procedure, he maintained his signature humor and faith, even FaceTiming ...

Use a little humor to deal with cancer surgery constipation. After a cancer surgery (or any major surgery), it is not uncommon to be constipated. It takes a while for the bowels to kick back into gear ...

Having a medical procedure, big or small, can be nerve-wracking. The nerves, the waiting, the bright hospital lights…it’s a lot. But every now and then, once everything goes smoothly and the ...