Surgerii Robotics has raised funding to further develop and market its SHURUI single-port endoscopic robot in Europe and ...

A critical incident caused by a shortage of surgical instruments saw a hospital trust cancel about 1,300 surgeries over the ...

In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...

A new report warns nearly 800 people have had surgical instruments left in them following a procedure since 2005, putting them at risk for serious harm. The report comes from The Joint Commission, a ...

When John Harrison checked into a Texas hospital in 2009 for rotator cuff surgery, he thought that after a six-week recovery period, he’d be as good as new. But two weeks after the operation, the 63 ...

Intuitive Surgical ISRG and Stryker SYK are two of the most influential players in global MedTech, each benefiting from long-term procedural growth, hospital technology adoption and favorable ...

During a surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center on June 9, an operating room staffer discovered a bone fragment from a previous patient lodged in a sterilized surgical tool. A surgical team member set ...

Two surgical sponges were left in a woman’s abdomen for at least six years, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The unidentified 42-year-old went to a primary care clinic ...

The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed by at least 1878.