June 17, 2016
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Huffington Post 8 Reasons You Can’t Get Rid Of Your […]
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May 6, 2016
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker Wall Street Journal How to Grab Customers With Real-Time Streaming Video […]
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March 22, 2013
Intuitive Robosurgery Training Seen Lacking in Lawsuits
By Logan Lafferty
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG), the maker of robots used in 367,000 U.S. operations last year, is facing accusations in lawsuits that it put patients at risk by marketing the machinery to doctors without providing adequate training…In gynecology surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers found it takes 90 operations to become proficient on the robot, according to study […]
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December 5, 2011
Robotic Surgery for Head and Neck Cancer
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During the last decade, robotic surgery has evolved from a novelty to the preferred surgical method for urologic, gynecologic, thoracic, cardiothoracic, and gastrointestinal procedures. The use of robotics in head and neck surgery grew out of the success of other transoral surgical modalities used to remove head and neck tumors. This article reviews the evolution […]
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November 2, 2009
Robots That Care
By Kelley Luckstein
Born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, Maja Matarić originally wanted to study languages and art… Now forty-four and a professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, she has begun working with stroke and Alzheimer’s patients and autistic children, searching for a way to make machines that can engage directly […]
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