Medical Microinstruments announced the first clinical use of two new technologies to expand its robotic-assisted microsurgery ...

(HealthDay)—About half of medical students with no experience with robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery can learn basic skills within two sessions using a simulator, according to a study ...

Not very long ago, you could die from a broken arm--and many did. That all changed with an idea we think of as pretty basic today: surgery needs to be sterile. On this day in 1867, Joseph Lister ...