Doctors can now perform robotic procedures from afar. What that means for rural Canadians

Even from a few kilometres away, Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira is able to perform a critical diagnostic procedure, thanks to an ...
NBC Los Angeles

Music meets medicine as Parkinson's patient plays clarinet during brain surgery

Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw her finger ...
New Atlas

MIT's injectable brain chips could treat disease without surgery

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a ...
The Spokesman-Review

A Parkinson’s patient plays clarinet during brain surgery

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...