This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Patient recovery after surgery may seem like something discussed after a procedure in completed, however, at MedStar Washington ...

Huntington Hospital reports performing New York’s first single-port gallbladder and Suffolk’s first single-port thoracic robotic surgeries ...

Uncover the benefits of robotic cardiac surgery in addressing complex congenital heart anomalies and enhancing patient ...

Are surgeons giving patients unrealistic expectations about recovery after robotic lung surgery? That's what CU Department of Surgery faculty member Robert Meguid, M.D., MPH, and surgery resident Adam ...

Gadsden Regional Medical Center has successfully completed its first robotic thoracic surgery. The procedure allows surgeons ...

On a bright day in May 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. This ...

Diaphragm plication is a procedure to treat a paralyzed diaphragm. The diaphragm is a thin, dome-shaped muscle that separates your chest and abdomen. When you inhale, your diaphragm will move down to ...

The hospital completed New York’s first single-port robotic gallbladder removal and Suffolk County’s first single-port thoracic surgery.

A laparoscopic Heller myotomy is a surgical procedure used to treat achalasia, a condition in which the esophagus doesn't push food and liquid into the stomach effectively and the lower esophageal ...

Thoracic outlet decompression (TOD) can treat thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), where the nerves and blood vessels in your chest are compressed. The aim of TOD is to reduce pressure on the structures ...