Bird Beats Cancer With The Help Of A 3D-Printed Prosthetic
It’s a reasonable certainty that 3D-printing is one day going to be a huge part of medicine. From hip implants to stents that prop open blood vessels to whole organs laid down layer by layer, humans...
View ArticleHacking Surgery: Suspended Animation May Be Here
Suspended animation is a staple of science fiction. Need to take a 200 year trip to another star system? Go to sleep in some sort of high-tech coccoon and wake up at your destination. We saw it in Star...
View ArticleSurgery Robot is a Real Cut Up
A robot that performs surgery is a serious thing. One bug in the control system could end with disaster. Unless of course, you’re [Michael Reeves], in which case disaster is all part of the fun....
View ArticleHacking When It Counts: Surgery Fit to Save a Future King
When we picture the Medieval world, it conjures up images of darkness, privations, and sickness the likes of which are hard to imagine from our sanitized point of view. The 1400s, and indeed the...
View ArticleSmart Sutures Become WiSe
A team at the Wireless Bioelectronics Lab at the National University of Singapore led by [Dr John Ho] announced the results of their new Wireless Sensing (WiSe) smart sutures program last month. Their...
View ArticleRobotic Surgeons Are Showing Hints Of One Day Outperforming Humans
When it comes to fields that are considered the most complex of human endeavours, the most typically cited are those of rocket science and brain surgery. Indeed, to become a surgeon is to qualify in a...
View ArticleBritish Hospital Blasts Through Waiting Lists By Slashing Surgeon Downtime
It feels like it doesn’t matter where you go, health systems are struggling. In the US, just about any procedure is super expensive. In the UK and Australia, waiting lists extend far into the future...
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