(Medical Xpress)—University of Arizona surgeons at The University of Arizona Medical Center have performed the world's first fully robotic total pancreatectomy with a successful simultaneous autologous islet transplant ...
Aug 27, 2012
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Sitting at a console that looks like a video game, Gary Chmielewski, MD, is performing complex lung surgery.
Aug 25, 2016
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When Army Ranger Leroy Petry's hand was blown off by a grenade as he was saving his comrades in battle, he knew just what to do. He used his remaining hand to twist a tourniquet around his arm to avoid bleeding to death.
Aug 15, 2011
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Rectal cancer is the cancer nobody wants to talk about, but the need for a conversation is becoming urgent. Combined with colon cancer, it's the third most common cancer in the United States, and diagnoses have been rising ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Two life-sciences entrepreneurs are launching the first procedure-specific software modules for robot-assisted surgery.
May 13, 2011
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When Professor Yan Liu was growing up in Changchun, China, her father wanted her to become a doctor like him. When she chose computer science, "I was a tiny bit disappointed," Xiwen Liu, a retired anesthesiologist, acknowledges.
Apr 5, 2023
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Surgery and all its implications can be scary, especially so for pediatric patients and their parents who dread sometimes disfiguring scars.
Jul 1, 2011
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Dr. Ryaz Ansari, a West Hartford, Connecticut, oral surgeon, knows how important it is to have teeth that are aligned and pain-free.
Dec 9, 2022
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Following years of work, Medtronic is launching the newest Mazor X spinal surgery system with robotic navigation in the United States, with two systems already sold in Minnesota.
Feb 28, 2019
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(Medical Xpress)—Robots are everywhere these days. They roam Mars, solve Rubik's cubes and vacuum our floors. Now, a robot named da Vinci is helping patients across the Penn State region get the major surgeries they need ...
Apr 25, 2013
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