An active 62-year-old Rockford man’s life took a turn when he received the news he needed heart surgery. But, what he didn’t ...

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 ...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH) has successfully performed a highly complex robotic heart surgery on a woman in her seventies who was living with seven ongoing cardiac ...

(NewsNation) — The recent success of the first U.S. heart transplant done through fully robotic means suggests a medical future where surgeons use less invasive means to do complicated procedures. In ...

Robotic surgery is evolving. Here’s what that means for patients. Two surgeons observing a robotic arm during operation. A medical team made history in September by performing the first fully robotic ...

Balloons and applause met Dr. Makoto Hashimoto as he arrived for his 100 th robotic cardiac surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. The milestone—achieved just months after the ...

A milestone in robotic surgery was announced Tuesday in Houston, as Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center surgeons revealed they successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the ...

This photo was taken after the surgery to correct the bleed on Poppy McGee’s brain last year. She is in the center in the front, in her wheelchair. Mollie is to her left, along with Mollie’s daughter, ...

HOUSTON – Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient—the first reported in the United States, according to a release.

Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the operating table to help the surgeon insert the robot arm through a small incision. The assistant has to constantly make sure the ...

Surgeons on the medical staff at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano achieved a major milestone when they performed that hospital's 1,000 th robotic surgery March 31, nearly six years after initiating the ...