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A surgical procedure to restore the power of sight to blind patients using their teeth is slowly gaining traction around the world, with Canada opening its first clinic for this treatment.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: Surgery, Eye surgery, Vision, Sight, Blindness
Researchers found that applying gentle, non-invasive electrical stimulation to the brain during virtual reality training helped budding surgeons to more easily transfer the skills they’d learned to a real-life setting. In addition to training better future surgeons, the approach could help skill acquisition in other industries.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Brain stimulation, Tra
In a stomach-churning development, the UK Ministry of Defence has unveiled the latest version of the Surgical Advanced Mannequin (SAM) for training combat surgeons, which is almost too good at simulating battle injuries, including very realistic bleeding.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: U.K. Ministry of Defence, Surgery, Robotics, British Army
Light-guided cancer surgery has been in development for some time with varying degrees of success, from light therapy to glow-in-the-dark tumors and the development of compounds that can illuminate tumors.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Tumor, Surgery, Infrared, University College London


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