Jerry Gilbert was hoping weight loss surgery would improve his health — and allow him to stay present in his grandchildren's lives as they grow into adulthood. Gilbert, age 63, weighed 309 pounds at 5 ...

A new minimally invasive procedure replaces a damaged heart valve through a small neck incision, potentially allowing patients to recover faster than with traditional open-heart surgery.

At 80-years-old, Deni Heller refused to let knee pain sideline her and a robotic partial knee replacement at Kelsey-Seybold ...

New advancements to robotic surgery systems are changing how doctors perform procedures and how quickly patients recover. With the help of systems like the da Vinci 5 at St. Dominic Hospital in ...

The da Vinci robotic surgical system, developed by Intuitive Surgical, is the most widely used robot-assisted surgical platform worldwide. This enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive ...

Robot-assisted orthopedic surgery enables surgeons to plan surgeries with a level of accuracy that had been difficult before.

Dr. Goya Raikar has spent much of his career taking the “open” out of open-heart surgery. As Chief Cardiac Surgeon at ...

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

A hypnotic rhythm underlies your existence. It began before you were born. It continues, right this very moment, without a single conscious thought on your part. It will be with you until the end. Lay ...

VMFH surgeon touts technique's precision over traditional methods, with potential for faster recovery.

BANGKOK - Rajavithi Hospital has completed a major first in Thailand's public health system, successfully removing a pancreatic tumor in a 12-year-old girl ...

In the first human trial of robotic-assisted cataract surgery, 10 patients underwent the procedure with good outcomes with no complications related to the treatment, according to the Los Angeles-based ...