Robotic surgery represents the latest advancement in minimally invasive surgery, utilizing small incisions for procedures that once required large abdominal or thoracic openings. This technique offers the same…
In this episode of “Newsworthy Stories,” Jacqueline Jimenez speaks with Bohdan Pomahac, MD, a leading plastic surgeon at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Robert Chelsea, the first African-American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Myoblast transplantation via catheter can be safely performed in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure, the results of a phase I trial…
Less pain and no incisions are just two benefits of robotically assisted surgery thanks to the da Vinci Surgical System. ~ Detroit Medical Center Submitted by Detroit Medical…
At Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Dr. Giancarlo Mari performs breakthrough in-utero surgery to save the lives of high-risk twins developing with a rare "shared" circulatory problem. ~ Detroit Medical…
This minimally invasive procedure employs two small cuts rather than a long incision before fusing two vertebra together. The result is less pain, as well as quicker recovery.…
Harper University Hospital has been accredited as a Bariatric Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons. By employing laparoscopy, this bariatric procedure is minimally invasive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preoperative screening and follow-up treatment if indicated can reduce postoperative infection rates with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients undergoing otolaryngic surgery, new…
Douglas P. Slakey, MD, MPH, Regents Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, discusses the importance of organ donation and outcomes of organ transplantation.…
Jaime Landman, MD, Minimally Invasive Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, discusses the advantages of laparoscopy. References and Resources Ahmad G, Duffy JM, Phillips K, Watson…
Ryan N. Heffelfinger, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, discusses the use of microvascular tissue transfer for patients who have…
