A hospital has been trialling using virtual reality headsets to help patients feel less pain after surgery by allowing them to meander through different scenaries.

A study from Hiroshima University found that when people were told to imagine their virtual bodies in pain, their brains ...

Virtual reality helped calm patients’ nerves before cardiac surgery. Holistic anxiety reduction may be preferable to perioperative anxiolytic drugs. Future VR experiences may be personalized ...

Veronica Even expected to bring her newborn, Theodore, home for Christmas. Instead, she watched as he was rushed to Manning ...

For many patients, the hours leading up to surgery are filled with anxiety. The unfamiliar hospital environment, the thought ...

With the platform HoloSNS — created by Professor of Biomedical Engineering Cameron McIntyre and his team — physicians and scientists can use virtual reality ... plan for the surgery more ...

Virtual reality can, in its own imperfect ways, transport a user into distant experiences. With a headset on, an everyday person can get a brief glimpse of what it’s like to perform a surgery ...