REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- Silicon Valley is raising the bar for robotic surgery and setting milestones as the technology looks to incorporate augmented reality and artificial intelligence to help ...

The final order in this case involving Dr. Gregg Shore came down on Tuesday. Hush Naidoo Jade Photography via Unsplash A 35-year-old woman died after gall bladder surgery in 2020. Three years later, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a soon-to-be 85-year-old healthy woman. I take a statin and baby aspirin (I assume because of my age) and have my gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) under control. I have ...

Some elective surgeries in Grande Prairie have been postponed because of issues with sterilizing surgical tools. Alberta ...

Abbitt's paper, published in August in the journal Surgical Endoscopy, shows that a telehealth appointment to follow up after a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal), is just as effective as an ...

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.

In a quiet lab at Johns Hopkins University, a surgical robot has just done what many thought was still science fiction—it performed a gall bladder surgery all on its own. No surgeon guiding its hands.

Inside the upper right part of your abdomen, below your liver, is a small, pear-shaped organ called the gallbladder (unless you’ve already had yours removed). The gallbladder’s job is to store and ...