Why a millimeter-wide bubble cloud may be the future of minimally invasive oncology Continue Reading Bubbling Tumors Into Oblivion

By the time doctors told neonatal nurse Laurie Travers that metastatic breast cancer had moved beyond their ability to help, she already had been living with the disease for nearly 15 years.

While robotic-assisted surgery has opened new frontiers for medical interventions—enhancing precision, improving dexterity, creating new minimally invasive options, and reducing patient trauma—these benefits haven’t come without a cost. Continue Reading Feel the Precision: Next-Gen Robotic Surgery With Haptic Feedback

Small companies are finding broad paths to success. While the big medical device makers may have a deep-pockets advantage in the neurostimulation space, many smaller players are innovating their way to advances that offer tantalizing hope for changing patients’ lives. Continue Reading Innovations in Neurostimulation

Weaving the Past into the Future Beyond Charleston’s rich history, cobblestone streets, and elegant architecture lies a handmade treasure deeply rooted in the African American heritage of the Lowcountry — the art of sweetgrass basketry. Representing both a symbol and a lifeline for formerly enslaved people over three centuries, these intricately woven gold-and-brown masterpieces can […]

Researchers develop new biocompatible and customizable materials to use in medical devices, implants, and drug delivery systems Continue Reading Biocompatible Materials Offer Sustainability and Enhanced Design

Functional electrical stimulation is experiencing a renaissance, with new emphasis on therapeutic uses. Continue Reading A Stimulating New Direction for FES

Upstart scrubs manufacturer Figs Inc., whose fashionable medical apparel has disrupted the $66 billion global scrubs market, won a 4-year court battle against a larger competitor.

The web-based standard FHIR — pronounced “fire” — could hasten the day when we can view our full medical histories on a smartphone screen. Tech giants are hungry for a piece of the pie, but obstacles remain.

Tucked away 150 miles south of mainland Australia, the island state of Tasmania too often is a travel adventure after-thought. Talk about a missed opportunity.   Superlatives come easily in “Tassie,” as its 500,000 residents call it, where the world’s tallest flowering trees shelter some of the planet’s oddest mammals. Even a short visit can yield […]

Amazon se ha asociado con numerosas compañías de atención médica, incluyendo varias en California, para permitir que los clientes y empleados usen Alexa para ayudarlos con la atención médica.

Amazon, along with a host of other technology companies, is working on ways to use its smart speaker devices to bring a range of health care services into your home.

Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science.

Its creators saw it as a great way to share information among the world’s widespread particle physics community.

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