Surgery and Surgical Robotics
St. Jude Medical Stroke Prevention Device Recommended for FDA Approval
A group of doctors convened by the Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that a new St. Jude Medical heart device to prevent strokes appears safe and effective, after more than 13 years of U.S. clinical research for the Minnesota-invented gadget. By a 15-1 vote, the doctors on the panel said Tuesday that the long-running…
Read MoreHow Does the Brain Control Movement?
What if you couldn’t move faster even when you wanted to? Researchers thought that the part of the brain that determines how fast we perform voluntary movements, such as walking across a room or playing a melody on the piano, was a bit like a car. It has an accelerator to make movements faster and…
Read MoreBrain Prevents Anxiety by Suppressing Perception of Heartbeat
Not being aware of the pulse of our heart might prevent anxiety, EPFL scientists found. Our heart is constantly beating yet we normally do not feel it. It turns out that our brain is capable of filtering out the cardiac sensation so that it doesn’t interfere with the brain’s ability to perceive external sensations. For…
Read MoreDoppler ultrasound headset performs well at spotting sports-related concussion
VANCOUVER – A new transcranial Doppler platform that analyzes subtle changes in the cerebral blood flow waveform performed well in detecting sports-related concussion in a cohort study of 238 Los Angeles high school athletes. The investigational headset device was able to differentiate between those with and without a recent concussion 83% of the time, investigators…
Read MoreFreshman Student Bailey Paxton Starts Medical Device Company
Business freshman Bailey Paxton has been traveling the country since the summer before his senior year of high school, courting investors and networking with manufacturers to get his medical device company off the ground. Paxton said he wants to license and manufacture a device for storing surgical tools in the operating room. This opportunity came…
Read MoreEye-Catching Benefit of Free Surgery
Lowe’s home improvement company, like a growing number of large companies nationwide, offers its employees an eye-catching benefit: Certain major surgeries at prestigious hospitals are free. How do these firms do it? With a way of paying that’s gaining steam across the health care industry, and that Medicare is now adopting for hip and knee…
Read MoreSoft Robotics Inc. Appoints Mark J. Chiappetta as Chief Technology Officer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Soft Robotics Inc., an early stage robotics company, today announced that it has appointed Mark J. Chiappetta as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Chiappetta is a high energy technology leader with over 20 years of experience in high growth, start-up and mid-size companies. He is an established inventor…
Read MoreRice University Students Design Testing to Validate 3-D Printed Hands
The Rice team calling itself Carpal Diem has developed a testing suite to validate how well 3-D printed hands transfer force from the wearer, typically a child born without a fully formed hand, to the prosthetic intended to help pick up and manipulate small objects. These 3-D printed hands have become a source of pride…
Read MoreNew Surgical Robot with Haptic Feedback Fits Entirely Inside Body During Operation
Engineers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a miniaturized robot for single incision and natural orifice surgeries. The device features haptic feedback, allowing the nearby physician operating it to feel the stiffness of tissues manipulated by the instruments, a feature not available on existing big name robotic surgical systems. The Novel Surgical Robotic…
Read MoreRobotic-Assisted Benign Hysterectomy Yields Better Results in Clinical Studies
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG) today announced the published results from a new study1 titled, “Multicenter analysis comparing robotic, open, laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies performed by high volume surgeons for benign indication.” When evaluating comparable surgeon experience, the study found that women undergoing benign hysterectomies by robotic-assisted surgeons using…
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