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ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The world of virtual reality is giving doctors a new pathway to cure patients. In the past, some of these patients had no hope for a safe treatment with traditional surgery.

From childbirth to wound care, virtual reality is being used to distract patients from their surgical pain — cutting down the need for painkillers and sedatives, according to a Mosaic Science analysis ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom holds that technology makes medical care less human, less personal. But watching patient Wanda Touard with virtual reality goggles on her head and controllers in her hands, ...

AI, augmented reality and virtual reality have been found to be useful tools in health care, with utilization in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Virtual reality is used a lot for games and entertainment, but now it's being used to help reduce pre-surgical anxiety. The technology is being used with patients at Nuvance ...

Virtual reality is becoming a common tool in medicine. Now, New England Vision and Vermont Eye Laser is using the new technology to show patients how their eyesight would change after surgery, and the ...

Think virtual reality is just for gamers? Think again. Doctors are using it to make surgeries more precise. Pokemon Go, VR headsets, virtual tourism, home designs apps and GPS navigation. All of these ...