A surgeon accidentally kills a patient, undoes the error, and starts over again. Can mathematics make such science fiction a reality? Virtual surgery is rapidly approaching, say mathematicians who are ...

A preliminary report suggests that virtual nasal surgery has the potential to be a productive tool that may enable surgeons to perform personalized nasal surgery using computer simulation techniques.

In his office on the first floor of The Royal London Hospital, Dr Shafi Ahmed keeps a classic Polaroid instant camera. Every time he meets a new trainee surgeon, Ahmed draws the camera out and takes a ...

A recent study published in PLOS One and conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston reveals virtual reality use during hand surgery led to significant reductions in ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Allison Harden is being wheeled into an operating room, about to have gastric-band surgery. She can hear the operating staff, the monitors -- it seems so real. But it's not. It's ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Have you ever wondered how the surgeon operating on you learned how to do your surgery? It used to be it was mostly hands on, operating on a patient, but as CBS2's Dr. Max ...

New pilots train on flight simulators before flying their first 757. Scientists experiment on animals before giving their new drug to patients. And fledgling surgeons perform their first few ...

Dr. Shafi Ahmed is working on making virtual surgery a possibility. — -- A British surgeon wants to make the operating room virtual with the Oculus Rift headset. Dr. Shafi Ahmed, a laparoscopic ...

COVID-19 hasn’t just delayed elective medical procedures and healthcare screenings—it may also be complicating surgical training provided by medical device company representatives. “Reps have been ...

Access to healthcare has always been a global problem, with those in more rural areas suffering the most. The world simply does not have enough clinically trained and specialized physicians ...

Video games that simulate the experiences of combat, space travel and car theft have achieved a startling level of fluidity and detail in recent years to create increasingly realistic virtual worlds.

Virtual follow-up care for surgical patients provides as much face time with doctors as in-person care, according to a new study. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many surgical patients are being ...