Robotic surgery was sold as the moment medicine finally caught up with science fiction, promising smaller incisions, fewer ...

More than 1,300 AI-assisted medical devices have FDA approval ...

Sometimes, it is brain surgery, and Jim Pearson is the first to admit it’s not easy to overhaul the way neurosurgeons do their extremely delicate job. For 15 years, Pearson has nudged, coaxed and ...

Baptist Health-Fort Smith has acquired the latest DaVinci robotic-assisted surgical system to help with patient care. Baptist Health has utilized the DaVinci system since 2007 and has performed more ...

Thoracic surgery — the treatment of diseases of the lungs, airways and chest — has changed more in the last 30 years than in the century before it. For patients, that evolution now means smaller ...

FALL RIVER — If robotic-assisted surgery makes you think of characters from 1960s TV cartoons or science fiction movies, think again. At Saint Anne’s Hospital, robotic-assisted technologies have been ...

Carla Muss-Jacobs didn't give much thought to the tools her surgeon would use to replace her knee. Like most patients, she just wanted to feel better and trusted that any devices in the operating room ...

Johns Hopkins researchers are trying to change that by adding such sensations, known as haptic feedback, to medical robotic systems. "Haptic" refers to the sense of touch. "The surgeons have asked for ...