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A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of ...

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created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Engineer builds robot based on crab to remove stomach cancers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of science that has a genuine wow factor, doctors and a mechanical engineer from Singapore's National University Hospital and Nanyang Technological Institute have teamed together to build a small ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

An easier way to remove gallstones

For more than 100 years, the traditional treatment for the painful growths called gallstones has been removal of the gallbladder, or cholecystectomy. But a new device, patented in China, promises to make removing the entire ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs

Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Endoscope controlled by MRI: A 'fantastic voyage' through the body

small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body — can be dangerously invasive. Procedures often require sedative medications ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Keeping stress at a distance

Beep-beep, tick, shoosh, beep-beep, tick, shoosh. Four tiny incisions are made in the patient’s abdomen … thin metal tools are inserted into the incisions.

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer patients needed for trial to assess imaging technique for mastectomies

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are recruiting women with breast cancer to test whether a technique to image tissue blood flow could help reduce complications after mastectomy surgery.

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created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New imaging technique visualizes cancer during surgery

Ovarian cancer is one of the most frequent forms of cancer that affect women. As tumors can initially grow unchecked in the abdomen without causing any major symptoms, patients are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and ...

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created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technology used in first fluorescence-guided ovarian cancer surgery

The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell "homing device" and imaging agent created by a Purdue University researcher.

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created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cognition research aims to reduce medical errors

How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of several studies published in a special issue of the American Psychological ...

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created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer -- robotic surgery may be best option

Prostate cancer is a significant public health concern and cause of morbidity among men in the United States. In 2011, it is estimated that 240,890 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed and almost 34,000 men will ...

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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