“There is an enormous opportunity to improve the surgical care of children,” says Johns Hopkins pediatric urologist Ardavan Akhavan, who specializes in minimally invasive surgery.

Over the last 100 years, gastric cancer has fallen from being the No. 1 cancer in the U.S. to one of the top ten. Another change that has taken place is where it tends to physically occur in the body.

Today’s big advances in medicine are built on a foundation of past discoveries, new technologies and forward thinking.

Maternal-fetal medicine specialist Ahmet Baschat has little use for the word “can’t.”