MAN’S STORY. YOU COULD SAY HE IS LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. YEAH, DEB, THIS STORY COULD HAVE ENDED BADLY. DEVONTE FLETCHER IS ONLY 30 YEARS OLD, BUT HE HAS A HISTORY OF IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT, ATRIAL ...

Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UC San Francisco have performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California ...

Robotic-assisted cancer surgery is helping selected patients recover faster with smaller incisions, less pain, and shorter hospital stays.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When we think of robotic eye surgery, we may mistakenly picture futuristic machines taking over while human ...

To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their ...

Malibu, California-based Horizon Surgical Systems announced earlier this month that its Polaris investigational microsurgical robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) platform was used to perform ...

Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the operating table to help the surgeon insert the robot arm through a small incision. The assistant has to constantly make sure the ...

Robotic-assisted surgery allows surgeons to operate with greater precision using a high-definition, 3D view. The surgeon remains in full control of the robotic instruments from a console during the ...

Eleven robotic systems for soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery have been approved for NHS use by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The approval comes with the caveat that ...

Robotic systems have emerged as a tool to assist surgeons in performing minimally invasive procedures in recent years. However, the adoption of robotic-assisted surgery has fallen behind in Canada.