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For the first time in U.S. history, a human heart was transplanted without opening the chest. No rib spreaders. No saw. No cracked sternum. The team at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center used a robotic system to remove and replace a failing heart through small incisions below the diaphragm. The patient walked out a month …
A robotic prostatectomy surgery was performed remotely from Florida on a patient in Angola as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. “We will operate from the United States to Africa in an FDA-approved clinical trial. We’ll be performing a robotic prostatectomy for a man in Angola who otherwise would not have access to high-end surgical …
The U.S. Air Force needs to pair its manned combat aircraft with next-generation drones—known as collaborative combat aircraft (CCA)—to gain the air superiority needed in a war against China’s communist regime, according to a recent report by the Washington-based Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. The report, based on wargames run by the Mitchell Institute in …