Less than 24 hours in Hospital? Know about health insurance coverage for day care treatments, surgeries, and emergency proceduresMany policyholders believe health insurance claims require a 24-hour hospital stay. However, modern policies cover numerous treatments comp...
20 May, 2026, 12.27 PM IST
Medical robotics startup Articulus Surgical raises funding from Kalaari CapitalWhile the startup did not disclose the amount, it said the capital will be used to accelerate market deployments, expand surgeon training p...
11 Feb, 2026, 06.01 AM IST
Army hospital sets 'new benchmark' in glaucoma careAn Army hospital in New Delhi has achieved a medical first. They used a new 3D operating microscope for glaucoma surgery. This advanced tec...
31 Dec, 2025, 12.49 PM IST
World's largest adrenal tumour removed robotically by Delhi doctorsSafdarjung Hospital in Delhi achieves a milestone. Doctors successfully remove a giant adrenal tumor from a woman. The tumor, measuring 18....
26 Apr, 2025, 11.22 AM IST
Epileptic seizures stopped after part of brain removed. Details of trailblazing surgery in UKIn the trailblazing surgery, the doctors of Edinburgh Children’s Hospital have removed the brain tissue that causes seizures. For the first...
26 Dec, 2023, 06.03 PM IST
What are neurological disorders, how to identify them, prevention and treatment? Here are expert viewsThe diversity of these disorders makes them challenging to identify, manage, and understand. Here, it becomes important to understand what ...
08 Nov, 2023, 05.37 PM IST
World Laparoscopy Hospital sets world record in robotic surgery trainingThe hospital said that it is the first private institute in India to initiate the practice of robotic surgery. Robotic surgery, a branch of...
17 May, 2023, 01.26 PM IST
Bengaluru's Dr Sandeep Nayak among top 3 winners of global robotic surgery innovation awardThe winners were selected from 100 global entries by an international jury form Oxford and Stanford Universities, and New-Delhi based AIIMS...
13 Sep, 2022, 05.44 PM IST
Apollo hospital unit claims completion of 100 robotic cardiac surgeries"The establishment of a robot-assisted cardiac surgery programme requires a tremendous amount of dedication and preparation, and we are pro...
06 Sep, 2021, 09.01 PM IST
Apollo Hospitals highlights importance of MitraClip therapy for high surgical risk patientsThe minimally invasive method used in MitraClip therapy allows repair of a leaking mitral valve without open-heart surgery, Apollo Hospital...
16 Mar, 2021, 05.16 PM IST
IIT researchers develop robot for less painful, more affordable spine surgeriesThe project is India's first robotic system for spinal surgery - making such procedures right-first-time across skill level of surgeons and...
27 Aug, 2019, 05.13 PM IST
Are robots making their mark in operation theatres?Many doctors opine that surgical robots are inevitable for better medical care in certain cases and lowering the risks associated with many...
03 Mar, 2018, 07.51 AM IST
Infosys Foundation donates Rs 8 crore to Asia HeartThe grant will be used to purchase high-end equipment, the IS 3000 da Vinci Si system to enable robotic surgeries, the Foundation said in a...
17 Mar, 2016, 04.14 PM IST
NEIGRIHMS doctors successfully perform beating heart valve replacementNEIGRIHMS boasts of having a cardiac surgery department which performs heart surgeries catering to all ages with varied heart ailments in t...
03 Jun, 2015, 05.00 PM IST
Mumbai doctors perform rare surgery on Bamboo Spine patientA team of doctors at a city hospital here have performed minimal access spine surgery on an 82-year -old 'Ankylosing Spondylitis' patient.
28 May, 2015, 11.06 AM IST
Robots helping surgeons where hands can't reachAway from the patient, the surgeon sits inside a console where he sees everything through a 3D high-definition vision system.
09 Apr, 2015, 07.47 PM IST
New 'Icy' technique improves robotic kidney transplantsSurgeons in India and US have successfully transplanted kidneys into 50 patients using an innovative robot-assisted procedure.
22 Jan, 2014, 03.36 PM IST