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Monday, 31 March 2025 13:37
The Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) Into Healthcare: An Informative Guide
Technology and healthcare are close relations, both cousins emerging out of the Renaissance and seeing rapid innovation since. Technology in the healthcare sector has continued to evolve at an unprecedented rate. From being able to undertake online healthcare courses like the Rockhurst University online FNP program to the advent of telemedicine, and now, the use of virtual reality.
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Saturday, 30 November 2024 10:39
How the NHS is tackling – and winning – the issue of hospital waiting lists
GUEST OPINION: There are not many countries which don’t have long hospital waiting lists. Australia is no different.
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Wednesday, 13 March 2024 10:40
63% of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Tracked by CISA are on Healthcare Organisation Networks, Claroty’s Team82 Finds
“State of CPS Security Report: Healthcare 2023” Reveals Startling Security Gaps in Medical Devices Directly Linked to Patient Care
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Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:41
Robots, artificial intelligence and synthetic human torsos fill the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Melbourne’s Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has become home to some of the latest cutting-edge robotic technology and international pioneers of robotic surgery, with the Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) conference currently in full swing.
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013 16:05
Man has 75% of his skull replaced with 3D copy
A man has had three quarters of his skull replaced by a 3D printed copy in a procedure that is being lauded as the first of its kind.
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Monday, 07 March 2011 15:32
Surgery streamed across the globe
The Australian medical community has taken another step forward with AARNET, Australia's Academic and Research Network, streaming a series of video demonstrations of gastrointestinal endoscopy techniques from Australia to countries in the Asia-Pacific.
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 21:58
The eyes have it: high-definition implants
A British ophthalmic surgeon has become the first doctor to implant an artificial lens into the eye that can be fine-tuned after the procedure is finished in order to produce vision that is better than 20/20.
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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 07:50
Medical first: Surgeons remove healthy kidney through vagina
On February 2, 2009, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announced that a team of their surgeons successfully removed a healthy kidney from a female donor through a tiny incision in the back of her vagina.
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:46
First U.S. face transplant performed on woman
The Cleveland Clinic announces that it has performed the first face transplant within the United States, a 22-hour surgical procedure that replaced approximately 80% of the patient’s face. It is considered the world’s most extensive facial transplant to date.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 20:40
Medical first: Stem cells used for windpipe transplant
European surgeons performed a pioneering first in medicine: The first human trachea (windpipe) transplant that used the patient’s own stem cells to prepare the trachea for transplantation.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 21:31
Scientists reduce appetite through varicose vein treatment
A hunger-activating hormone was reduced in pigs using a medical procedure originally used to treat varicose veins. If it works in humans, the obesity-control treatment could be a much less invasive surgical procedure than bariatric (weight-loss) surgery.
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 19:19
First southern hemisphere full artificial heart transplant to be performed
Dr. Paul Jansz and Dr. Philip Spratt are scheduled to perform the first full artificial heart transplant, from the Southern Hemisphere, in September 2008 in Sydney, Australia.
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:32
Smells like rotten eggs? You may be in suspended animation
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that small amounts of smelly hydrogen sulfide can be safety applied to laboratory rodents to quickly place them in a suspended animation-like state.
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