An international team of surgeons spent months preparing in virtual reality before attempting to separate the twins who shared a fused brian. Reading time 2 minutes An international team of surgeons ...

Virtual Reality enabled doctors to train for a surgery to separate a set of conjoined twins in Brazil. At nearly four years old, the two boys were the oldest craniopagus twins with a fused brain to be ...

New technology from virtual reality video games and popular apps like GPS is making its way into operating rooms, transforming the way surgeries are performed. University of California San Diego ...

A medical team in London collaborated with a medical team in Brazil using VR and 3D-printed models to simulate the difficult procedure. In Rio de Janeiro, surgeons separated 3-year-old conjoined twins ...

Jamie Clarkson is a fellowship-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in the hand and a pioneer in the field of the use of virtual reality for patients in the office setting. Clarkson ...

The field of orthopedics is highly complex and continually evolving, particularly as the fast and furious pace of new surgical devices and technologies accelerates. The importance of highly effective, ...

Operation to be performed on 14 April 2016 at 1pm GMT at Barts Health NHS Trust, and live-streamed through virtual reality using Mativision technology An operation on a patient with colon cancer at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Virtual reality headsets aren’t just for playing video games. At Oregon Health & Science University’s Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, doctors are using the technology to ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., is partnering with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Tufts University in Boston to create a virtual operating room to train surgeons, according ...

Advancements in medical devices and surgical techniques hold promise for saving and improving lives. But our current system of training and assessing surgeons has lagged behind the pace of innovation ...