AI promised safer surgeries and smarter medical devices, but FDA incident reports tell a different story. Since 2021, AI-enhanced surgical tools have logged a disturbing spike in malfunctions and ...

Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924. This photograph from 1924, taken in one of the operating rooms at the University of California Hospital (present day UCSF), is spare and almost austere.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A robot upgrade is transforming cancer surgery in the Lowcountry. The Da Vinci SP made its way to the operating room for doctors at Trident Medical Center. The robot ...

Starting a patient-controlled epidural anesthesia (PCEA) infusion while the patient is still in the operating room (OR)—rather than in the recovery room after the procedure—may help provide better ...

It's a worst-case scenario in health care: A patient undergoes life-saving surgery and is sent home to recover, only to return to hospital later with a surgical site infection. Such infections affect ...