Search Tag: Neurosurgery
2021 04 Apr
A team of U.S. researchers present the results of a pre-clinical study of the first human use of a wireless broadband intracortical brain-computer interfaces in tetrapledgic individuals. You might also like: What’s new in medical devices? An overview of novel medical devices, from an implanted simulator for better sensation...Read more
2015 01 Sep
Studies have shown that, overall, about 20 percent of patients seek second medical opinions; in specialties such as oncology, the rate is more than 50 percent. To meet this demand from patients, an increasing number of online services now offer second medical opinions, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal . Some of these online services...Read more
2014 20 Oct
A robotic device that can be used to perform minimally invasive epilepsy surgery has been developed by a team of engineers from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA). A working prototype was unveiled in a live demonstration at the Fluid Power Innovation and Research Conference 2014 (FPIRC14) held in Nashville between 13 and 16 October. For severe...Read more