“There was no cutting, no stitching,” Dr. Sathanandam told Local 10. He said the VR system let the team study Matthew’s ...

A person wears virtual reality goggles to view and manipulate images in the Living Heart Project. (Photo: Courtesy of Dassault Systèmes and the Living Heart Project) Clinical trials can be very ...

At the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford Medicine pediatric cardiologist David Axelrod is working on using virtual reality (VR) to model heart defects. The models serve both as educational ...

A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart ...

FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and healthcare professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to "accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency" through ...

Purdue University Scho o l of Nursing students place their hands into a large, beating human heart, immersing themselves into anatomy rather than simply studying it. “Nursing is very hands-on,” Nagle ...

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In April, Dr. Shafi Ahmed, a U.K surgeon and cancer specialist, entered the operating room to remove a tumor on the colon of a man in his 70s. About a half-dozen surgical team members stood by ...

This post was updated Jan. 16 at 1:25 a.m. UCLA Health’s Rosenfeld Hall is using novel technology – from virtual reality devices to human-like animatronics – to improve teaching for medical students.