Medical Microinstruments (MMI) announced today that the FDA granted 510(k) clearance for its NanoWrist surgical robot instruments.

MMI’s dissection instruments are some of the smallest fully wristed robotic instruments designed for dissection in open ...

Tooth extractions are commonly associated with a fair amount of trauma. But they can become a matter of applying light pressure and waiting for a telltale "pop," signaling the disengagement of the ...

Clinicians used a new surgical technique to remove a separated endodontic instrument stuck about 2 mm below the tip of a patient's tooth root in a case published in the Journal of Endodontics. They ...

On the heels of its $12 billion purchase of CareFusion, Becton Dickinson ($BDX) is looking for suitors for the acquired company's V. Mueller line of surgical ...

A California woman is suing Shasta Regional Medical Center and a Redding doctor for medical negligence because she says an 8-inch long surgical instrument was left inside her during surgery. The ...

Scotland Patients Association said patients should not be put at risk Forceps, needles, fragments of a bone drill and swabs are among the objects left inside Scottish patients during operations, it ...