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 ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance—the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to ...

Dear Dr. Douma: I recently had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) and at my follow-up exam the surgeon told me the pathology report stated my gallbladder was gangrenous. What could ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Gallbladder removal and hernia repair are among the most frequently performed general surgeries in the U.S. Now these procedures are being transformed by robotic-assisted surgery, ...

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 ...