Actress Susan Heyward, who plays Sister Sage, discusses the surprising delight she found in filming the gruesome ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

St. Elizabeths, one of the most historic and infamous landmarks in D.C., has been abandoned and closed to the public for ...

In the U.S., lobotomies are no longer used as surgery to treat psychiatric problems. Some other types of psychosurgery are still performed when other treatments have failed. Few medical procedures in ...

Rosemary Kennedy inspired sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver to create the Special Olympics Rosemary Kennedy was the eldest daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife, Rose. For many years, the story of ...

Lobotomy is a surgical procedure performed on the brain. The brain has several lobes, each with different functions. The frontal lobe was the part of the brain targeted in the standard lobotomy ...

A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Lobotomies became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for certain ...

Thirty years after doctors stopped performing lobotomies to treat mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, relatives of patients who suffered after undergoing the procedure want the Nobel ...

"He was searching for the best for his family," author Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff says of Joe Kennedy's decision to order his daughter's lobotomy When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a ...