In a medical first, surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the human eye , greatly improving the accuracy of a delicate surgery to remove fine membrane growth on the retina . Such growth ...

Shira Medtech is developing a low-cost device for sutureless microvascular anastomosis, aiming to make delicate blood-vessel ...

Seattle Children’s Hospital is using 3D printing to create replicas of patients’ organs and tissue to give its surgical team an opportunity to practice together before an operation, according to an ...

PRECISE, AND THEY INVITED US TO SEE HOW IT WORKS. WHAT HAPPENS HERE? MARK: SO IT IS SIMULATING WHAT A HEART WOULD LOOK LIKE. EMILY: NOT JUST THE HEART. ALSO TINY ARTERIES, JUST 2 TO MILLIMETERS WIDE.

When Dr. Mark Terry considered a cutting-edge eye surgery for 8-year-old Hannah Terrell, he wondered whether anyone else had performed that operation on a child. Terry found just one scientific study ...

FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) – Doctors at the University of Connecticut are using 3-D printing technology to help them practice some delicate brain surgery. Since 2012, physicians have been using a ...

U.S. Army physicians, located far from a field hospital, could soon be performing delicate, highly specialized surgery on wounded soldiers using robotics and other forms of telemedicine. Army Surgeon ...

Facial reconstruction surgery and face transplants are two of the most delicate medical procedures that can be done. The first "near-total" face transplant in the United States was performed in 2008 ...