Medical robots are helping doctors and other professionals save time, lower costs and shorten patient recovery times, but patients may not be ready. Our research into human perceptions of automated health care finds that ...
May 7, 2019
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Chubby, pink and anesthetized into unconsciousness and paralysis, 16-week-old Ian Lund was a small bump under blue drapes on an operating table at University of Chicago Medicine. Perched above him was a robot, with arms like ...
Mar 2, 2012
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The KangDuo Surgical Robot-01 (KD-SR-01) system is safe and effective for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, according to a study published online May 18 in The Journal of Urology.
Jun 1, 2022
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A new study, published in JAMA, has found that robotic surgery reduces the chance of readmission by half (52 percent), and revealed a "striking" four-fold (77 percent) reduction in prevalence of blood clots (deep vein thrombus ...
May 16, 2022
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You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how do you know if they've mastered it? To help answer that question, researchers at Keck Medicine of USC looked to a ...
Dec 11, 2017
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Incidence of head and neck cancers - usually defined as malignancies above the collarbone but outside the brain - are on the rise, according to statistics from the American Cancer Society (ACS). The most common is thyroid ...
Aug 1, 2016
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From knife, to needle, to nothing at all, ultrasound offers the potential for completely bloodless surgery.
Jun 25, 2014
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A Wayne State University researcher's innovative use of a new tool may make surgery a more viable option for sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).
Aug 27, 2013
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An estimated four in 10 hospital websites in the United States publicize the use of robotic surgery, with the lion's share touting its clinical superiority despite a lack of scientific evidence that robotic surgery is any ...
May 18, 2011
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In 2012, scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute launched the world's first clinical trial comparing robotic surgery to radiation therapy for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer (cancer at the back of the throat). ...
Jun 6, 2019
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