BACKGROUND: The da Vinci robot has become the face of modern minimally invasive surgery. It provides surgeons with 3-D visualization, enhanced dexterity, better precision and optimal control during ...

Cleveland Clinic Children's doctors used Levita's Magnetic Surgical System (MSS) for the first pediatric case following FDA ...

Robot-assisted surgery beneficial for pediatric spine cases enables faster return to sports and reduces complications, finds HSS study.

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston announced the establishment of its first dedicated pediatric robotic surgery program. Chester Koh, MD, will lead the program. He focuses on robotic and minimally ...

Personalized medicine is the wave of the future, a time when treatment plans will be tailored to an individual patient based on their genetic makeup, environment and lifestyle. The burgeoning field is ...

Doctors at Main Line Health now have a new kind of robotic surgery that makes recovery quicker and easier for lung cancer ...

Hernias are a common medical condition, affecting over five million people in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. When someone has a hernia, it means an organ or ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

The world of medicine has seen a fascinating leap forward with the advent of robotic surgeons, now performing heart surgeries at an impressive 99% success rate. This revolutionary development ...

Christopher Good, MD, completed the first minimally invasive robotic Bertolotti’s resection surgery in the world.  The procedure, which was performed at Reston (Va.) Hospital Center, provides an ...