In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...

"This robot is going to let the surgeons get a sense of touch again, a sense that we lost with traditional robotic surgery ...

Cleveland Clinic surgeons are using a new robotic-assisted procedure to replace a damaged aortic valve through a small neck incision. Doctors say the technique may shorten recovery time compared with ...

As someone who doesn’t do well with the recovery downtime that comes with recovering from surgery, Caroline McCarty was happy to have an option for her ovarian cancer surgery that had a faster ...

Jami Greer was waiting for her 12-year-old daughter to come out of surgery when she received a confusing text: “The robot has docked.” Mia Greer, a patient at UF Health, had already received ...

Doctors at Main Line Health now have a new kind of robotic surgery that makes recovery quicker and easier for lung cancer patients. Traditional lung cancer surgery usually involves some pain and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an advancement for minimally invasive care, a first-ever procedure using two separate surgery robots was successfully completed ...

Cutting edge technology may come with downsides. For an abdominal wall hernia repair, also known as a ventral hernia repair, the most common surgical approaches have been laparoscopic and open ...

Cancer surgery often requires patients to travel to the specialist. This time, the specialist traveled to the patient. Doctors at The London Clinic remotely guided a robotic system to remove a man's ...