DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Mark Smolik, a Surgeon with the MercyOne Des Moines Bariatric Surgery Department, has hit a major career milestone — his 1,000th surgery using a robot. Dr. Smolik started ...

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 ...

A surgeon in London has successfully performed the UK's first long-distance robotic surgery on a patient in Gibraltar.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patna: Doctors at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) will perform three kidney-related robotic surgeries on Friday, including two for kidney cancer, as its ongoing clinical trial ...

Marshall Medical Center is expanding its use of the da Vinci Surgical System to include gynecological procedures. This ...

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 ...

In investing, the greatest advantage an investor can have is a long-term investment horizon. Warren Buffett once said, “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.” ...