Tonya Retter's doctor offered her a new option when she needed a hysterectomy — a new, robotic procedure that requires just one small incision in her navel.

A breakthrough medical procedure relies on a robot and a single incision through the belly button.

St. Mary’s stated that the robotic-assisted single site hysterectomy offers less pain, less blood loss, fewer complications, less risk of infection, less scarring and quicker recovery times.

Urging physicians to ignore the hype about robotic surgery, ACOG says the procedure, which is considerably more expensive, does not improve patient outcomes for a minimally invasive hysterectomy.

The volume and cost of hysterectomy procedures performed by surgical robots are soaring. But infection rates, intraoperative injuries, reoperations, and transfusions are all essentially the same ...

Advances in robotic surgery are getting women in and out quickly for surgeries like a hysterectomy. For Beverly Sagal, she waited to decide when the right time was for her to get a hysterectomy.

A new procedure at the University of Michigan Health System called a robotic myomectomy allows women to maintain their fertility while surgically removing their fibroid tumors. By performing the ...

The Federal Drug Administration recently approved a new robotic surgery for certain gynecological procedures.

An initial Mayo Clinic study has confirmed the effectiveness and durability over time of a patient-friendly, robot-assisted procedure that corrects a complication that can follow hysterectomy.

The robot operations cost hospitals $2,189 more per procedure than performing the same surgery without the robot, according to the study released yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical ...