BRINGING HOME GROWN MEDICAL ROBOTIC COMPANY. IS LOOKING TO EXPAND THAT. WITH THE SNIP OF A RIBBON BY THE STAR OF THE SHOW. THIS MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL ROBOT HELPED CELEBRATE VIRTUAL AND SURGEONS ...

In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the need to open the chest. The pioneering procedure, performed at the ...

To perform open heart surgery, a surgeon cuts through the sternum in a procedure known as a sternotomy. It is a major operation that involves a lengthy healing process that can take months or years.

Open heart surgery is an incision that is made through the sternum, otherwise known as the breastbone, which is then spread apart. This form of opening is called a full or median sternotomy. Following ...

Bypass surgery is a type of open-heart surgery. Surgeons may use several different types of bypass surgeries to repair or replace the heart. Open-heart surgery is an operation where surgeons repair or ...

A little robot is leading to some big bucks. Assisted surgery developer Virtual Incision announced it has raised $30 million to help carry its operations through the next two years as it sets its ...

With the widespread use of abdominal imaging, there has been a substantial increase in the detection of incidental, small renal masses. This change has resulted in a downward trend in the size and ...

After a few years of what he thought was indigestion, James Rakestraw’s abdominal pain got so bad he drove himself to the ER one February evening. Tests revealed that the 42-year-old Easley man was ...