Psychology & Psychiatry
Robotic therapy helps children's coordination
Researchers from the University of Leeds are developing an innovative new robotic device that helps children to practise and improve their hand coordination.
Sep 9, 2013
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Surgery
Robots could one day help surgeons remove hard-to-reach brain tumors
NIBIB-funded scientists and engineers are teaming up with neurosurgeons to develop technologies that enable less invasive, image-guided removal of hard-to-reach brain tumors. Their technologies combine novel imaging techniques ...
Sep 9, 2013
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Surgery
Robotic surgery complications underreported, study suggests
Despite widespread adoption by hospitals of surgical robot technology over the past decade, a "slapdash" system of reporting complications paints an unclear picture of its safety, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
Sep 3, 2013
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Health
Mayo Clinic to test sideline teleconcussion robot
There will be a new face at Northern Arizona University football games this fall – only this face will be on a robot on wheels.
Sep 2, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Using a robot to improve brain cancer treatment is aim of new award
With a five-year, $3 million R01 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a team of researchers led by Gregory Fischer, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
Aug 29, 2013
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Sleep disorders
New surgical tool may help sleep apnea sufferers, research finds
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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Surgery
New cooling technique for robotic surgery performed on difficult kidney stone
A first-ever technique using ice slush and minimally invasive robotic surgery to remove a particularly large type of kidney stone has been reported by urologists at Henry Ford Hospital.
Aug 27, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Full body illusion is associated with a drop in skin temperature
Researchers from the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, show that people can be "tricked" into feeling that an image of a human figure—an "avatar"—is their own ...
Jul 30, 2013
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Medical research
Thought-controlled robotic arm 'makes a big negative a whole lot better'
Dr. Albert Chi, a UA College of Medicine graduate, helped develop a robotic arm and hand that a person can control with his or her thoughts.
Jul 8, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Use of advanced treatment technologies for prostate cancer increases among men with low-risk disease
Use of advanced treatment technologies for prostate cancer, such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy and robotic prostatectomy, has increased among men with low-risk disease, high risk of noncancer mortality, or both, a population ...
Jun 25, 2013
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