Even from a few kilometres away, Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira is able to perform a critical diagnostic procedure, thanks to an ...

From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease, 2025 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs.Scientists discovered a brain implant ...

Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon ...

Robotics developed by medtech firm Sentante have been used in a fully remote thrombectomy performed at University of Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital in Scotland. The procedure, which removed blood clots ...

This tiny but mighty robot just nailed its first surgery demo in zero gravity up in space this weekend. On Saturday, surgeons from Lincoln, Nebraska, remotely controlled a two-pound robot, known as ...

A surgeon in Kuwait guided robotic instruments through living tissue in Brazil, without ever boarding a plane. On September 23, 2025, operating rooms separated by oceans moved as one, as doctors ...

It involves less pain, less bleeding, and there’s lower risk of infection,” said cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sanjay Tripathi.

Sovato, a Santa Barbara, CA-based company trying to enable healthcare organizations to implement and scale remote robotic surgery, or telesurgery, has closed its series B round, bringing its total ...

NASA is planning to send the first humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s, but what happens if one of the crew suffers a serious health issue during such a lengthy mission? Unlike the International ...