CHICAGO – There is a wide variation in the use of laparoscopic surgery for gall bladder removal in Hong Kong hospitals, and use of this procedure is more likely at certain hospitals and among younger ...

Robotic-assisted cholecystectomy was tied to a 0.7% rate of bile duct injury that required definitive surgical reconstruction within 1 year compared with a 0.2% rate for laparoscopic cholecystectomy ...

Yes, Original Medicare covers gallbladder removal surgery if a healthcare professional indicates the procedure is medically necessary. Doctors may refer to gallbladder removal surgery as ...

Gallbladder removal surgery, also called cholecystectomy, is one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide to treat gallstones, inflammation, or bile duct obstructions. While this ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9 (UPI) --Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone" with successful gallbladder removal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robots trained by watching expert surgeons can now perform complex operations with little human help. This breakthrough is happening right now. For the first time, an autonomous surgical robot ...

Removing an organ is a serious medical procedure, but while this can be lifesaving for some, others might consider it a source of regret. This is what happened to TikToker @kkjonessss, who went viral ...

A 10-year-old boy in eastern China is now living on intravenous nutrition after a routine operation went tragically wrong, ...

A robotic surgical system such as the one pictured here was trained by Johns Hopkins researchers to successfully perform lengthy gallbladder removal procedures without human help, according to a study ...