The da Vinci surgical robot, developed by Intuitive Surgical, can now be found in a quarter of all hospitals in the country. So far it has been used to perform around 400,000 procedures. According to new report the FDA is now investigating this popular surgical robot as reports of incidents have increased over the past year, in which 500 incidents were reported, including several deaths. As of now there are no official results of this investigation.
The da Vinci robot is used in procedures such as repairing heart valves, removing prostates, wombs and gallbladders, organ transplants etc. A surgeon controls the robot by sitting in front of a screen instead of standing over a patient, making the procedure less tiring. Another advantage of the robot is that its hands don’t shake, though surgeons are hardly ever clumsy, still there’s a difference between man and machine. The same machine has caused problems, such as the incident when the robot’s arm wouldn’t release a tissue it grasped during the procedure. Such incidents could potentially be life threatening. This robot is the only robotic system that the FDA has approved for soft tissue surgery.
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So we’ve heard of Apple’s FaceTime, which is basically Apple’s spin on video calling, and it seems that the Cedars-Sinai hospital has announced a new initiative called “BabyTime”, which as the name might have already given away, is basically the use of FaceTime to help connect newborn babies with their mothers. As a male, I am unable to conceive how difficult it must be to give birth, let alone walk and hold your baby, so in the cases where moms are non-ambulatory after giving birth, this gives them a chance to connect with their newborn baby who might have been placed in the NICU where babies typically born from cesarean section are taken, or where there are complications that require strict monitoring.
Yesterday, we saw a precocious teenager come up with a 
T.Ware’s T.Jacket is definitely not an ordinary jacket, as you can check it out from the image above with various descriptions for different parts of it. In a nutshell, the T. Jacket is said to offer a therapy management wearable solution for autistic children. First developed early last year, the T.Ware is a remote controlled jacket that will apply pressure whenever it is triggered, simulating a hug. Specially meant for autistic children in an effort to reduce anxiety as well as nervous reactions, it remains to be seen whether it is going to sell by the truckloads or not.
3D printing is certainly catching on in its very own manner, and scientists have managed to come up with a new kind of 3D printer which is capable of churning out material that resembles human tissues. This particularly unique substance is actually a deceptively simple network of water droplets that have been coated in lipids, and if it were to be further studied and improved, who knows, it could eventually be used to deliver drugs to the body. Of course, there is also the holy grail of 3D printing in the biomedical field, that is, to replace damaged tissue in living organs, which could eventually spell the end of certain kinds of cancer. Who knows what the future holds?
When it comes to an asthmatic patient, having an inhaler close at hand is always good practice, as you can never quite tell just when you might need to get a dose in. Well, the folks over at Cambridge Consultants are currently marketing a new kind of dry powder inhaler that they call the NEXThaler, which was specially designed for Chiesi, an Italian pharmaceutical company. The NEXThaler is capable of automating doses and helps deliver asthma medication, making it a whole lot easier as well as nearly mindless for patients to remain on their regimen without missing a beat.
