The University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital recently became the first in the Southeast to perform a kidney transplant using a robot. On Jan. 15, Drs. Michael Hanaway and Muhammad Rabbani ...

Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon ...

This robot doctor was designed to go and treat patients where human doctors can’t. “The medic could drive a robotic system to a location and perform a series of different kinds of triage tasks on that ...

Jami Greer was waiting for her 12-year-old daughter to come out of surgery when she received a confusing text: “The robot has docked.” Mia Greer, a patient at UF Health, had already received ...

Surgeons in Houston successfully completed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S. on a 45-year-old man. Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center said doctors performed the entire procedure ...

Doctors at Main Line Health now have a new kind of robotic surgery that makes recovery quicker and easier for lung cancer patients. Traditional lung cancer surgery usually involves some pain and a ...

Another often-overlooked aspect of knee replacement is the patellofemoral joint, which governs how the kneecap moves. Poor ...

A doctor in Florida has used a robot to remotely perform surgery on a cancer patient thousands of miles away in Africa. Vipul Patel, the medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Orlando's ...

ONE WANTS TO HAVE SURGERY, RIGHT? THE LARGE INCISIONS AND THE LONG RECOVERY PROCESS. IT’S A NO, THANK YOU. FOR MOST PEOPLE. BUT TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING ALL OF THAT. AS 11 NEWS ANCHOR, LACEE GRIFFITH ...

Alabama's robotic ultrasound plan raises concerns from OB-GYNs.