Advancements in medical devices and surgical techniques hold promise for saving and improving lives. But our current system of training and assessing surgeons has lagged behind the pace of innovation ...

Operation to be performed on 14 April 2016 at 1pm GMT at Barts Health NHS Trust, and live-streamed through virtual reality using Mativision technology An operation on a patient with colon cancer at ...

New technology from virtual reality video games and popular apps like GPS is making its way into operating rooms, transforming the way surgeries are performed. University of California San Diego ...

Brazilian twins who were joined at the head have been successfully separated with the help of virtual reality. Three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, with ...

As augmented reality technology improves, you’re going to see it in use everywhere — including the operating room. German research institute Fraunhofer MEVIS has created an app that lets surgeons use ...

The treatment of breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer and cancer mortality among women worldwide, is mainly on the basis of surgery. In this study, we describe the use of a medical image ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- For the first time, surgeons are leveraging the same technology used in virtual reality video games and some of the most popular apps like GPS to perform more ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., is partnering with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Tufts University in Boston to create a virtual operating room to train surgeons, according ...