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Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Surgical Robots of the Future Likely to be More Targeted & Provide Tangible Healthcare Benefits

While robots have been in use since the 1960s, it is only 25 years since robotic technologies were first used to assist surgeons in improving surgical outcomes, providing such benefits as less trauma on the body, minimal scarring, and faster...

July 20, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Virtual Reality Surgical System Coming to Rush University

The days of operating on female pigs are over for obstetrics and gynecology residents at Rush University Medical Center. The 24 doctors in the four-year program will practice surgeries on a virtual reality system beginning later this summer. Rush and...

July 18, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Mazor Robotics Set to Receive $20M Investment from Medtronic

Medtronic PLC is preparing to invest another $20 million in Israeli med-tech company Mazor Robotics, which is expected on Tuesday to announce a new robotically assisted spine-surgery system called Mazor X. Analysts say physician interest in robotically assisted surgical tools...

July 12, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Is Your Doctor’s Advice Objective on Receiving Robotic Surgery?

Patients often rely on physicians for information about their treatment alternatives. Unfortunately, that information is not always objective.  Consider a man with early-stage prostate cancer interested in surgical removal of his tumor, but uncertain whether it is better for the...

June 29, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Flexible Robotic System, Developed in Pittsburgh is Centerpiece of Medrobotics

James Jordan half-jokingly said he thought he “might be investing in a sock puppet.” The year was 2005. Mr. Jordan, one of four executives-in-residence at the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse on the South Side at the time, had just volunteered...

June 29, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Trauma Surgeons Superhuman Efforts at Orlando Health

A 6-year-old boy with abnormal pupils and gasping for breath. A 26-year-old pregnant woman with a gunshot wound to her abdomen. A 54-year-old male with blood pouring from a wound in his thigh. Now add 43 more patients. Imagine you are the...

June 23, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Baby Bentley Born with Brain Formed Outside of Skull

When Sierra Yoder went with her husband Dustin to get her 22-week ultrasound and find out the sex of their baby, she was shocked when the concerned doctor sent her to a neurosurgeon. Soon after, the baby was diagnosed with encephalocele, a...

June 23, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Sophisticated Robotic Hand Learns it’s Experiences

Get a grip! Not so easy if you are working with a robotic hand. Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle are tackling the problem with the development of a sophisticated five-fingered robotic hand…one that can learn from...

June 14, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Why Jobs in Surgical Robotics and VR are at fever pitch – Plus a great video from #IEEE featuring a few of our client companies!

If you ever wanted to work in the field of Surgical Robotics, now may be the time to connect with Legacy MedSearch, one of the leading retained medtech recruitment companies in the North America. Even with my  intense focus on...

June 2, 2016