Slime Molds, Starlings, and Seals Share Commonalities with Trauma Teams

From robotic breakthroughs to workforce trends, the ACS Brief’s most-accessed articles of 2025 highlight what mattered most to surgeons.

Submit a scholarly essay on surgical history for the ACS Young Surgeons Essay Competition; entries are due January 12.

The ACS and MacLean Center offer a surgical ethics fellowship combining clinical practice, scholarship, and ethics consultation.

The ACS offers financial planning resources to help surgeons manage earnings, insurance, and long-term financial security.

Listen to Dr. Mary Fallat’s insights on strengthening pediatric trauma and burn care systems.

With a government funding deadline approaching, the ACS presses Congress to address harmful wRVU cuts affecting surgeons nationwide.

New FACS artwork posters are available for ACS Fellows to display their credential—download them through your facs.org profile.

Nominate candidates for ACS leadership roles—including Officers-Elect, Secretary, and Regents—by February 13.

A national Japanese database study shows robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy reduces severe complications and fistula rates.

Level I evidence supports adding pyloroplasty to MIE/RAMIE to lower pneumonia and leak rates without worsening early quality of life.