06/17/2019
Top 10 Update: Alternative Therapy for Pain
In 2017, the Department of Health & Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. While the crisis, on the rise due to continued misuse of prescription painkillers, has impacted each region of the nation to differing extents, Ohio has suffered significantly – ranking as one of the top five states for opioid overdoses.
06/13/2019
Innovating and Iterating to Make Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Easier
For Amit Bhatt, MD, 2018 was a good year – this endoscopist licensed not one, but two of his technologies to a major medical device manufacturer. These devices, the Dissecting Endocap and the Endoscopic Retraction Strip, are both used for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD).
06/12/2019
True 3D Visualization Leads to New Reality for Surgery
A new era has begun in head-mounted display (HMDs) technology for augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) fueled by giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. With this mega-trend, researchers Karl West, Director, MDS and Jeffrey Yanof, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, recognized that this can help address unmet needs in minimally-invasive surgical visualization, not just gaming and education applications.