Dr. Garry Weide, cardiothoracic surgeon at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke’s Heart and Lung Surgery in Cedar Rapids (UnityPoint) “The Ion robot sees more and can biopsy areas that we couldn’t ...

Doctors at Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers were the first in Arkansas and across Mercy to detect and remove a ...

Saint Francis Hospital is the first in the state to complete 1,000 robotic-assisted bronchoscopy procedures with the Ion ...

To diagnose lung cancer and determine the optimal treatment strategy, physicians typically rely on tissue examination. However, taking biopsies is ...

The Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy System, a revolutionary tool in the field of pulmonary care, allows physicians to locate and ...

In a remarkable medical feat, doctors at Sagar Multispeciality Hospital (SMH) successfully removed a 3 cm-long metallic pin that had remained lodged in the lung of a 25-year-old youth for nearly 15 ...

Johnson & Johnson plans to seek a U.S. indication for multiple general surgery procedures, including gastric bypass, which ...

The cell counts are most accurate when done on the original, pooled sample before any washing procedure has been performed; washing results in a loss of total cells and a decrease in cell viability.

During the procedure, doctors visualized the pin lodged deep in the lung. Using biopsy forceps, they carefully gripped and repositioned the pin to avoid injury before safely removing it from the ...

Emma Wassell tells Tom English about her recovery from a tumour and how there is "no sweeter" goal than returning for ...

“I’ve got to have a lung biopsy in a couple of weeks. It sounds pretty gnarly. It might tell us what the cause was.” The procedure involves a small piece of lung tissue being removed and ...

In the state of Oklahoma, lung cancer is the most ... doctors can take a biopsy and even begin treatment — all during the same procedure. “Ten years ago, we didn’t have this option ...