MEDTECH, a company specialized in designing, developing and marketing innovative surgical assistance robots, today announced the first sale of its ROSA™ Spine robotic surgery system in the U.S. - to Miami Valley Hospital.
Last Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) issued a report on superbugs and the risk they pose to hospital patients stating that “more work is needed – especially in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.” Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) kill nearly 200 people in the U.S. every day and affect 1 in 25 hospital patients – and these numbers do not include infections acquired at skilled nursing, long-term acute care and outpatient surgery facilities.
Researchers at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) have developed a unique artificial fingertip that provides sophisticated tactile data to amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen.
EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, today announced the first prostate ablation treatments performed at Gramercy Surgery Center in New York, NY, using the Company’s FDA-cleared Ablatherm Robotic HIFU. Dr. Ivan Grunberger, Chief of Urology at New York Methodist Hospital and Professor of Clinical Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College, performed the procedures. He was assisted by Dr. Judd Boczko, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Urology at New York Medical College who practices with Westmed Medical Group.
A group of graduate students from Cornell University have developed a unique electroluminescent skin that can be stretched to almost six times its actual size, but still produces light even under increased amounts of strain. This latest breakthrough holds the potential to transform a wide range of industries, including health care, electronic communication, and transportation.
Mazor Robotics, a pioneer in surgical guidance systems for spine and brain surgery, announced today a new clinical milestone with the successful completion of over 150 complex spine cases, performed with the Renaissance® system, by Dr. Kornelis Poelstra, at Sacred Heart Hospital Emerald Coast in Florida.
Robots in medicine is a readily growing trend in making life easier for patients and doctors alike. Now the St. Louis Children’s Hospital paediatric cancer robots play a role in looking out for the social and psychological needs of patients as well.
Initiated by Professor Yeung Chung-Kwong (Prof Yeung), Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), a team of experienced engineers led by Professor Yung Kai-Leung (Prof Yung), Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was invited to develop the system as an engineering partner since 2012.
BYU mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of origami to engineering. Now they’re applying their origami skills to a new realm: the human body.
Virtual Incision Corporation today announced the successful first-in-human use of its miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device (RASD) for colon resection, a procedure performed to treat patients with lower gastrointestinal diseases. These diseases include diverticulitis, colon polyps that are too large to be removed endoscopically, pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions of the colon, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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