by Bruce Brown | December 26, 2017 | General News, Medical
How do you recognize true pioneers? They’re the ones with arrows in their backs. Early tech adopters fully expect glitches, bugs, and even the occasional failure or system reboot. Innovative medical tech doesn’t work like that, thank goodness. After...
by Kimberly Houston | November 8, 2017 | General News, Medical
If you’ve ever had surgery, you know that preparing for the procedure and its aftermath can be daunting. You must follow detailed instructions from your healthcare provider and medical team about what to do before and after. You have to think about risks, healing...
by Alfred Poor | May 16, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the most revolutionary advances in medical practice is the development of minimally invasive surgery. These procedures rely on one or more tiny incisions, through which trocars (similar to catheters) are inserted that can deliver tiny cameras (laparoscopes and...
by Alfred Poor | November 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Patients with prosthetic limbs or spinal cord damage don’t have a sense of touch from their limbs to provide feedback about their position or movements. We’ve written about a number of different research projects working on this problem, and here is...
by Bruce Brown | May 20, 2016 | General News, Medical
A new method of finding and removing ovarian tumors is in the development and testing stage by researchers from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital. The problem is that by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it’s often at a...