Endocrine surgery involves the doctor operating on the patient’s glandular system including the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreas. The diseases in these organs range from goiter to thyroid and pancreatic cancer to complex issues such as Conn’s Syndrome, Cushing’s Disease and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome. Cutting edge techniques involve [...]
Using an advanced imaging technique, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System were able to predict which patients who'd recently suffered concussions were likely to fully recover. The study also sheds light on the brain's mechanisms for repairing or compensating for concussion injuries — information [...]
Because our skeletons break down over years of use and misuse, the fact that researchers were able to develop artificial joints means we can live longer, more mobile, healthier lives. Artificial joints can replace hips and knees to help us maintain an active lifestyle. Today’s total hip replacements can [...]
Researchers at the University of Leeds School of Physics and Astronomy have been working with liquid crystal in order to develop an adjustable artificial eye lens. It is the same material as is found in television screens and smartphones. The newly developed lens is believed to be able to [...]
Newborns, especially premature newborns, could be faced with many medical ailments and doctors wanted to find ways to avoid exposing their lungs to harmful radiation that can result from x-rays. Now, researchers in Sweden have found a way to use near-infrared spectroscopy to image the “oxygen concentrations” in the [...]
Those who suffer chronic pain are desperate for relief. For some, that means medications which may take the edge off, but don’t always address all of the pain issues that patients face. Today’s technologies, including optogenetics may provide doctors a way to help these patients with a non-invasive, highly [...]
As automation and robotic technology continues to be enhanced and improved, more patients may find themselves in the “hands” of a robotic device for their surgical procedure – assisted by the human surgeon, as well. Robots have been developed that can operate on soft tissue and have proven to [...]
The National Cancer Institute reports that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, second only to skin cancer. Following lung cancer, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the United States. Light reflectance spectroscopy has been used by surgeons during prostate [...]
Surgical Robot technology is not new. In 1985 a robot was used to perform a brain biopsy through CT guidance. In 1987 the technology was used in a laparoscopic procedure and in 1988 it was used to perform prostatic surgery. Robotic technology advantages The advantage to doctors, and there [...]
Glucose meters are being developed that have “lab-on-a-chip” methodology as a way to diagnose and hopefully prevent diabetes. The application of an optofluidic device enables detection of glucose in solution that requires only a droplet of sweat to test, rather than a drop of blood. Researchers from Hong Kong’s [...]
