Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – Virtual reality technology is making brain surgery safer and helping to explain complicated procedures to patients. Neurosurgeons at Corewell Health William Beaumont University ...

Scheduled for a hysterectomy at Sunnybrook Hospital in 2016, Laura Victoria-Perez was full of nerves. "I didn't know physically what to expect," she told CBC News as she sat in her Toronto apartment.

Passive distraction through three-dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) and two-dimensional (2D) video is equally effective in reducing anxiety in children during the induction of anesthesia before ...

Dr. Robert Louis, director of the skull base and pituitary tumor program at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute, didn’t set out to use virtual reality as a tool for patient engagement. Originally, Louis ...

In a world-first, Dr. Eric Rosenberg used Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset with a custom app to perform cataract surgery, enabling real-time remote collaboration. The ScopeXR platform streams ...

SurgicalED VR, led by Virginia Commonwealth University urogynecologist Lauren Siff, recently won a pitch competition presented by the Richmond university’s first-ever startup accelerator program for ...

Virtual reality is moving from gaming into classrooms, offering immersive lessons that boost engagement, understanding, and retention. From algebra to virtual surgery, educators are using VR to make ...

According to Mejia, the technology has emerged as a potential teaching tool for young fellows to recognize what they are looking for during surgery. Mejia said the VR imaging can also help when ...