A patient with breast cancer was able to avoid unnecessary mastectomy through the use of a virtual reality simulation, ...

Doctors in Stoke-on-Trent have become the first in the UK to use new virtual reality (VR) goggles that show them what's going ...

FundamentalVR, a firm based in London, UK, is releasing in the United States its Fundamental Surgery virtual reality surgical simulator. The system uses off-the-shelf haptic feedback controllers to ...

The unification of the companies’ products aims to reduce surgical variability and improve post-operative outcomes for ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The world of virtual reality is giving doctors a new pathway to cure patients. In the past, some of these patients had no hope for a safe treatment with traditional surgery.

NHS surgeons now use incredible virtual reality goggles to see patients’ scans on their bodies and create a “road map” while ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Virtual reality helped calm patients’ nerves before cardiac surgery. Holistic anxiety reduction may be ...

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2024, Michael Greenwood, MD, explains the benefits of using virtual reality education for patients undergoing cataract surgery. “We ...

Virtual reality (VR) may be an effective and reliable tool to alleviate the anxiety experienced by most parents or caregivers when their child undergoes surgery, according to research presented at the ...

From childbirth to wound care, virtual reality is being used to distract patients from their surgical pain — cutting down the need for painkillers and sedatives, according to a Mosaic Science analysis ...