Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty, is a common procedure that can improve mobility and decrease pain in a hip joint that’s no longer functioning properly. The American College of ...

It takes years of intense study and a steady hand for humans to perform surgery, but robots might have an easier time picking it up with today's AI technology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...

Not all wounds require surgery. The size and depth of the patient’s wound will determine if they need surgery and which surgery is most appropriate. The majority of burn surgery procedures are skin ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive procedure that doctors use to diagnose and treat chest conditions. During a VATS procedure, a surgeon inserts a thin tube with a ...

U.K. surgeons remotely removed a man’s prostate cancer from 1,500 miles away in the country’s first successful robot-assisted ...

A mastoidectomy is a type of surgical procedure on a part of the temporal bone called the mastoid. Doctors typically recommend the procedure to treat conditions called mastoiditis and cholesteatoma.