The first robotic surgery happened in Belgium in 1997. It was considered an expensive novelty met with skepticism. Fast forward 26 years and now it's a standard of care across many medical specialties ...

Pressure on operating theatres is a major constraint on NHS surgical capacity, with workforce shortages, limited beds, and lack of theatre time all contributing to long waiting lists. Against this ...

When Dr. Holly Kiper joined the Marshall Medical team increasing the staff of OB/GYNs to seven, that was good news for this growing community. But she also brought to the ...

Robotic and minimally invasive kidney cancer surgery may reduce pain, shorten recovery time and preserve kidney function, according to Dr. Armine Smith. Robotic and minimally invasive surgery for ...

University of Iowa Health Care added three new surgical robots, expanding robotic surgery capacity by an estimated one thousand operations per year and effectively doubling the current capacity. UIHC ...

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 ...

In the more than two decades since da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery began to shift from a theoretical premise to a plausible option for minimally invasive surgery, hospitals and health systems have ...

In acute care settings, robotic-assisted cholecystectomy (RAC) and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) resulted in similar rates of bile duct injury, but RAC was associated with higher rates of major ...

Over 2,000 robotic surgeries have now taken place across the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust’s Pinderfields and Dewsbury ...

Health chiefs have hailed a robotic surgery revolution that will slash recovery times and help to cut NHS waiting lists. The "trailblazing technology" sees surgeons control a robotic system to operate ...