NORTH HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the worldwide launch of the SILS™ Stitch articulating suturing device for ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that its Surgical Devices business unit has launched the Covidien SILS™ Port ...

Huy T. T. Nguyen, DO, discusses five important points on single-incision laparoscopic surgery in ambulatory surgery centers. 1. SILS results in less pain and shorter recovery time for patients.

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP., was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical ...

Patients at Memorial Hospital in York, Pa., are undergoing certain laparoscopic surgeries with a single-incision surgical device that leave only a hidden scar, according to a York Dispatch report.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Minimally invasive surgery -- also known as laparoscopic surgery -- ...

May 4, 2009 — Amid the thrill and excitement of innovation in gastroenterologic and laparoscopic surgery at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgery (SAGES) 2009 Annual ...

LOS ANGELES One local surgeon says it's the way abdominal surgeries should be done. A colonoscopy revealed a large non-cancerous polyp, but Aida Iranosian needed six inches of her colon removed. The ...