CIS news

A lot of tension around the da Vinci:

• Surgeons defending the robotic MIS procedures
• Investigation on possible da Vinci surgery nerve risk 
• Research on the effectiveness of da Vinci throat surgery
• Defending robotic prostate surgery on Fox News
• Robotic surgery makes kidney donation less invasive
• Robot under FDA scrutiny over reports of freak accidents and deaths 
• New round of Intuitive's research grants

• Robot Accessory System for Patient positioning
• Surgical robotics market forecasted to reach $1,697.5 million by 2018
• CAVA Robotics is making business on da Vinci economics
• KUKA is getting more and more involved in medical robotics. 
• Johns Hopkins researchers develop swarms of tiny surgical robots
• Laser ablation surgery for epilepsy  
• Robotic  percutaneous coronary interventions : Is it worth the cost?
• New report on global market for medical robotic systems
• Meet your next surgeon: Dr. Robot
• Frog-like robot will help surgeons
• Investment priorities may be changing in MIS
• ABC news: robot surgery alert

• NeuroBlate approved for MRI-guided neurosurgical laser ablation
• Olympus introduces articulating HD 3D endoscope
• A wiring diagram of the brain
• Brain-to-Brain interface allows a human to wag a rat’s tail
• Postdoc opening at The University of Chicago in medical robotics