The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) announced today that a team of heart specialists at its Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) has successfully conducted the Midwest's first-ever "robotic-assisted" coronary revascularization to relieve heart artery blockages. The successful implementation of the pioneering new treatment procedure – unique in Michigan and so far performed at only three institutions in the United States – means that DMC heart care patients now have access to the world's most advanced treatment method for relieving blockages in heart arteries, said CVI President Theodore L. Schreiber , M.D.
Approximately one in every 1,000 people in the UK is an amputee. Many lose their limbs as the result of tragic accidents or due to active military combat and for some amputees losing a limb can feel like losing their freedom.
MAKO Surgical Corp., a medical device company that markets its RIO® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic surgical platform, MAKOplasty® joint specific applications, and proprietary RESTORIS® implants that together enable orthopedic surgeons to consistently, reproducibly and precisely treat patient specific osteoarthritic disease, today announced its selected operating results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2012 in anticipation of its business update presentation at the 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 7:30 am PT.
It may look like a futuristic gadget from a science fiction movie, but this germ-killing robot is a new, efficient method of tackling hospital superbugs. As reported in the Daily Mail, the device kills hospital superbugs faster than before, and could save the NHS $325 million a year if adopted nationwide.
Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs.
After 12-year-old Steven Kraguliac began experiencing bouts of pain in his right side, an ultrasound revealed that fluid was backing up into his kidneys as a result of a bilateral ureteral obstruction. His physician referred him to St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Pediatric Urologist Dr. Ethan Polsky , who specializes in pediatric urology surgery.
Health Robotics today announced that, effective January 1, 2013, it will fully comply with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including maximum health insurance benefits for its USA-based employees.
Among the select few physicians honored with the prestigious Patients' Choice Award this year is Dr. Ivan Colon.
A new generation of intelligent robot with functions of mobility, lifting, and standing for the disabled called “i-Transport,” which can be adjusted to the user’s height and position while taking stuff or talking to others, has been developed by a National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team.
Leonidas Hill recently made history at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, when the 5-year-old became the first pediatric patient in the western United States to undergo transoral robotic surgery (TORS) - a minimally invasive surgery performed with the help of a robot - to repair a rare congenital condition known as a laryngeal cleft.
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