Latest Robotic surgery Stories
DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 100,000 viewers tuned in Wednesday night to see the debut episode of a groundbreaking five-part series focusing on Children's Medical Center (www.childrens.com) on WFAA Ch. 8. The original dramatic series, "Children's Med Dallas," will continue airing on Wednesday nights through August, revealing the tears and triumphs in behind-the-scenes stories of life at the nation's 7th-largest pediatric hospital. The show wraps up with an hour-long grand...
GARDNER, Mass., Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. (OTCQB: PEYE) (the "Company") today announced the receipt of $2.5 million in connection with an agreement with Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. Pursuant to the agreement Precision Optics agreed to assign to Intuitive Surgical all of its currently issued and non-expired patents and pending patent applications, and Intuitive Surgical agreed to grant to Precision Optics a royalty-free, worldwide license to...
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. David Samadi, Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, welcomed 130 academically outstanding high school students to witness a live robotic prostatectomy procedure. National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine (NYLF/MED) invited Dr. Samadi to be part of their ten-day residential program for exceptional high school students in the greater tri-state area. As a leading...
DALLAS, Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day, sick children fight for life at Children's Medical Center (www.childrens.com). At their bedsides are some of the world's best surgeons, determined to do everything in their power to help them. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, go to: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/childrens/51372/ (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110801/MM42811 ) Beginning Aug. 3, "Children's Med Dallas," a five-part TV documentary...
NEW YORK, July 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- When Anyang' Nyong'o, Medical Services Minister of Kenya, returned cancer-free to his native land in March of this year, he made a commitment to the people of Kenya. "My experience is a wake-up call for us in Kenya," he proclaimed. Following a prostate cancer diagnosis by his Kenyan doctor, Mr. Nyong'o chose to put his life in the hands of a prostate cancer specialist in the United States. Now back in Kenya, Nyong'o is establishing the African Cancer...
Surgeons Goldrath and Troy perform two robotic surgeries with newest technology available. McHenry, IL (PRWEB) July 21, 2011 Dr. David Goldrath, Dr. Richard Troy and a highly skilled surgical team at Centegra Hospital-McHenry performed the first robotic surgery in McHenry County July 6. The team used the newest daVinci Si HD Surgical System to perform a prostatectomy (removal of the prostate) on a 56-year-old patient. "This is yet another effort to execute our mission to bring the latest...
NEW YORK, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Just one year after the FDA approved Provenge, an immunotherapy for treating advanced prostate cancer, Medicare announced that they will continue to pay in full for Provenge when used in accordance with label indications. Provenge, unlike traditional hormone or chemotherapy treatments, uses a patient's own cells to fight the cancer, thereby extending the life of the patient. Dr. David Samadi, Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, and Chief Robotics...
NEW YORK, July 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The acquisition of the da Vinci Robotic Si Surgical System, a state-of-the-art robotic surgical technology, was recently announced by the Asian Heart Institute (AHI) in Mumbai, India. This marks the first of the new da Vinci Si models to be obtained by a hospital in Asia. This da Vinci model improves visualization with high definition 3D and beneficial changes to the user interface. The robot provides minimally invasive surgical treatment options for...
An altruistic kidney donor from western Pennsylvania is recovering well today after becoming the first patient in the region, and one of just a handful in the country, to undergo robotic-assisted minimally invasive kidney removal surgery at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH). Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) July 07, 2011 An altruistic kidney donor from western Pennsylvania is recovering well today after becoming the first patient in the region, and one of just a handful in the country, to undergo...
Patients with gastric tumours in their stomach will no longer have to suffer an eight-hour long surgery, but instead can look forward to a short day surgery which last a few minutes to an hour without the need for hospitalisation.This new procedure "“ the world's first flexible endoscopy robotic surgery in the stomach "“ was successfully performed on patients suffering from gastric tumours in India.The procedure was performed on a total of three patients, one patient per day from 1 to 3...
