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UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons are the first in North Texas to perform robotically assisted laparoscopic gastric-bypass and colon-resections surgeries. The procedures were performed using DaVinci, a four-armed robot controlled by the surgeon via a joystick. DaVinci can provide better camera views and more precise surgical manipulations than are available in traditional laparoscopic surgeries........

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Spinal disc fusion surgery to treat low-back pain is not very likely to be better than other, more conservative options such as physical therapy over the long term, most members of a panel of U.S. medical experts told Medicare officials on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chemical compound in the abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and ovarian cancers, researchers found.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It might be better to start your morning with a cup of coffee than a sugar-sweetened juice, at least where risk for type 2 diabetes is concerned, a new study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exercise training for heart patients is safe, a new study shows. Among 25,420 patients undergoing rehabilitation after heart surgery, heart attack or for other causes, just 20 severe events occurred over a one-year period, and none were fatal, French researchers report.