Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic surgical system such as the one pictured here was trained by Johns Hopkins researchers to successfully perform lengthy ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Gallbladder removal and hernia repair are among the most frequently performed general surgeries in the U.S. Now these procedures are being transformed by robotic-assisted surgery, ...

An AI-controlled robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal with "100 percent accuracy." The procedure, conducted by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, demonstrated the power ...

The painful spasms of a gallbladder attack often begin suddenly (sometimes after eating a fatty meal) and may last several hours. The attack is caused by one or more gallstones getting stuck in the ...

Robotic surgery has reached a new milestone after a robot successfully – and autonomously – performed gallbladder removal operations while listening and responding to voice commands. Just as a human ...

New artificial intelligence (AI) research brings digital health care a step closer toward fully autonomous robotic surgery. A recent landmark study led by Johns Hopkins University created an AI model ...

A robot has performed the first realistic surgery without human help. Johns Hopkins University researchers said Wednesday that the Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy had trained on videos to conduct ...

Each year, approximately 2,000 people die annually of gallbladder cancer (GBC) in the U.S., with only one in five cases diagnosed at an early stage. With GBC rated as the first biliary tract cancer ...

Plainview Hospital has completed its 1,000th robotic surgery, performed by a team of trained robotic surgeons. The surgery, which involved a gallbladder removal, was performed in August using the Da ...