A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

The surgery was done on a 67-year-old man whose aortic valve was already replaced with a prosthetic. However, he developed a ...

Baby Boomers all remember “The Jetsons,” a jazzy cartoon series they watched as kids in the early-1960s about George Jetson, his wife Jane and their two children living in a futuristic society. The ...

James Choate-Deeds and his wife Caryn held hands and braced themselves for the test results. “It’s a gut-punch for sure to hear the words, ‘you have cancer †,’” he said. “Caryn gripped my hand tighter ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s coast early Wednesday, sending tremors throughout the country's Far East, including at a hospital in Kamchatka Krai.The video above shows doctors at the ...

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