Cancer surgery often requires patients to travel to the specialist. This time, the specialist traveled to the patient. Doctors at The London Clinic remotely guided a robotic system to remove a man's ...

A skilled Chinese medical team achieved a pioneering milestone by performing a remote robotic surgery during a practical frontier conference on Friday, June 7. At first, it seems impossible to do this ...

A soldier hit by shrapnel in a contested zone today faces a brutal clock. Depending on terrain and enemy fire, hours can pass before a medevac helicopter lands and more hours before a surgeon makes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests that a surgeon no longer needs to be in the same room as the patient, and that operating on a patient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Panamanian doctors are shown being trained in the remote robotic procedure to treat stroke. Photo courtesy of XCath March 24 (UPI) ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - New technology is on the horizon that could allow surgeons to perform operations remotely, potentially transforming emergency medical care in rural areas. Dr. Andy Ringer of Ohio's ...

The first UK remote robotic surgery has been hailed as a "milestone" by medics. A surgeon in London operated on a patient with prostate cancer who was some 2,400km away in Gibraltar. He was operated ...

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 ...

Sovato, a Santa Barbara, CA-based company trying to enable healthcare organizations to implement and scale remote robotic surgery, or telesurgery, has closed its series B round, bringing its total ...

This tiny but mighty robot just nailed its first surgery demo in zero gravity up in space this weekend. On Saturday, surgeons from Lincoln, Nebraska, remotely controlled a two-pound robot, known as ...