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New, Less Expensive, Soft Robotic Glove for Rehabilitation of Post-Stroke Patients

Initial rehabilitation therapy for many stroke victims may focus on regaining the ability to walk. But when hands also are affected, therapy focused only on the legs can leave hand muscles contracted, a condition that can be difficult to overcome.

10 Aug 2015

LeeSar Selects Aethon’s MedEx TraySafe Product to Streamline Medication Tray and Kit Processing

Aethon is pleased to announce LeeSar in Fort Myers, Florida has selected Aethon’s MedEx TraySafe™ product to streamline their medication tray and kit processing for improving safety and compliance of preconfigured trays used in crash carts. LeeSar provides supply chain and operational services to multiple hospitals in the region.

10 Aug 2015

Global Telemedicine Market Expected to Reach US$34.27 Billion by 2020

According to a new market research report, 'Global Telemedicine Market - Growth, Trends & Forecasts (2015-2020)', published by Mordor Intelligence, the Global market is expected to be worth US$ 34.27 billion by the end of 2020, with North America being the largest market globally accounting for more than 40% of the global market size.

5 Aug 2015

Robotic 'Whisker' Tactile Sensor Array Produces Tomographic Images by Measuring Fluid Flow

Many mammals, including seals and rats, rely on their whiskers to sense their way through dark environments. Inspired by these animals, scientists working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois' Advanced Digital Sciences Centre in Singapore have developed a robotic 'whisker' tactile sensor array designed to produce tomographic images by measuring fluid flow.

5 Aug 2015

VuCOMP to Display Advanced Computer Vision Systems at 20th Annual Mammography in Santa Fe

VuCOMP, Inc., leading developer of advanced computer vision systems for the detection of breast cancer, today announced that it will be showcasing its portfolio of cutting-edge imaging products at the 20th Annual Mammography in Santa Fe: Music, Mammograms, and Mountains, August 3-7, 2015. The meeting attracts breast imaging professionals from around the country.

4 Aug 2015

Stanford Technique Makes Brain-Controlled Prostheses More Precise

When we type or perform other precise tasks, our brains and muscles usually work together effortlessly.

3 Aug 2015

Inferior Vena Cava Thrombectomy Successfully Performed Using Robotic Surgery

Surgery is required when cancer of the kidney causes a Level III thrombus, or clot, to develop in the major vein leading back to the heart. Traditionally this complicated procedure, inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombectomy, is performed using a large open incision, primarily because the vein is often difficult to reach.

30 Jul 2015

Corindus Vascular Robotics to Exhibit CorPath System at CVIT 2015

Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc., a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announces that Augusto D. Pichard, M.D., interventional cardiologist at Washington Hospital Center and Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center, will discuss how robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) are applied in a modern cath lab during his presentation entitled “Robotic Coronary Angioplasty” at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics: CVIT 2015 in Fukuoka City, Japan, on July 30.

30 Jul 2015

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions Opens Healthcare Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence in India

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, a subsidiary of Sutherland Global Services, has opened a Healthcare Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India.

30 Jul 2015

ROSA Robot Helps Detect Source of Seizures in Patients with Epilepsy

There is a new surgical robot in town. The ROSA robot is helping physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham detect the source of seizures in patients with epilepsy.

30 Jul 2015