Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The procedure utilized the advanced robotic da Vinci 5 surgical system. Benefits include smaller incisions, ...

"My breathing has improved 100%,” Cheryl Mehrkar tells PEOPLE following the groundbreaking procedure Photo by NYU Langone Health Surgeons in New York have become the first in the world to complete a ...

New York University (NYU) Langone Health achieved a medical milestone by performing the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. A 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Dr. Gazi B. Zibari and the staff at Willis Knighton John C. McDonald Transplant Center has just made history in Northern Louisiana. The first living donor kidney ...

For a long time, liver donors could expect a big scar and a three-month recovery from surgery. Now, Colorado doctors are using robots to retrieve organs from living donors for transplant. We'll hear ...

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure is aimed at speeding up the healing process and shortening hospital stays. It builds on other ...

The most obvious home function we associate with the bladder is plumbing. But transplanting a bladder is much more complex than reconnecting a replacement to existing pipes. It also requires attaching ...

HOUSTON — Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States. Using a robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...