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 ...

With five phases of advancement, teams can become successful working through each type of case, from simple to complex.

Your physician assures you that you should have robotic surgery. Less pain, less blood loss, and faster recovery. The decision seems like a no-brainer. But is your surgeon enthusiastic about the robot ...

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 ...

Scientists in Switzerland have built a robot as small as a grain of sand. Surgeons control it with magnets and move it through blood vessels to place medicine exactly where it is needed. Bradley J.

In popular culture depictions of surgery, a scalpel-wielding doctor usually cuts an abdomen wide open, before rootling around in a person’s viscera and depositing some organ onto a tray. But the ...