Many heart procedures are labeled as “minimally invasive,” but some of these procedures still involve cutting through the ...

CLEVELAND -- Brad Kaster donated a kidney to his father this week, and he barely has a scar to show for it. The kidney was removed through a single incision in his bellybutton, a surgical procedure ...

Surgeons at UCSF have taken a major step down the path toward less invasive procedures, performing San Francisco’s first gallbladder removal using only a single, small incision hidden within the navel ...

Medical history was made again at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) with Solomon Islands’ first ever kidney stone removal ...

For years, orthopedic teams have increasingly used single-use, prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy (sNPWT) to reduce these complications. These dressings support healing by applying ...

Many of us are familiar with arthroscopic surgery. These are common surgeries performed in the knee, shoulder, or hip where a surgeon places a thin tube with a small camera at the end, also simply ...

DENVER (KDVR) – A woman who awakened during hernia surgery but remained unable to move or communicate with her doctors while the incisions were being made is now suing her anesthesiologist, the nurse ...

Just three times the width of a human hair, the probe is slim enough to pass through a standard tube already used during ...

LINCOLN, Neb., & PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company pioneering first-of-its-kind miniaturized robots for laparoscopic surgery, today announced ...