In another first for the Indian SSi Mantra surgical System, a surgical team at Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences has replaced a faulty mitral valve in an unspecified patient, who was discharged three days after the procedure....
Dr. Aditya Kulkarni has earned recognition from the Poona Surgical Society for the second year in-a-row! His video, ‘Robotic Hiatus Hernia Repair with Fundoplication,’ won their Best Video Award....
Dr. Kushal Agrawal, former VF Fellow, is part of a team from Oster International Institute of Oncology who have produced two of the first reports On the SSI Mantra surgical robot published recently in the International Journal of Advanced Robotic and Innovative Surgery. He...
The US FDA has given Intuitive Surgical permission to market its latest model, the da Vinci 5, the 5th-generation iteration of their famous robotic surgical platform. It is an upgrade to the Multiport Xi, which was first released in 2016. Intuitive claims...
While women are considered very important in Indian homes, sometimes their access to the benefits of robotic surgery are limited, both through gender bias within household budgets, and the limited knowledge of robotic surgery's availability for female procedures. ...
Fierce Biotech is reporting on a collaborative effort of GE HealthCare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) they have developed has been used to study medical records and patient data (such as whether the patient was a smoker), to determine...
A New England Journal of Medicine article suggests that women with low-grade cervical cancer (stage 1B1) may not need a radical hysterectomy, but instead are within recurrence rates of those who underwent a simple hysterectomy. ...
The IEEE Spectrum is reporting that Cognito Therapeutics, a medical startup, has devised a method for treating patients with Alzheimer's Disease using light and/or sound stimulation. 40-Hz frequency sound waves, administered through headphones or a light box resonate the brain to stimulate natural healing...