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  • Patient wears 3-D glasses during brain surgery

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    In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief surgeon told AFP Tuesday. “In creating a completely artificial world for the patient, we could map certain zones and connections of his brain related to functions that we could not,…

  • Cyber attack snarls Los Angeles hospital’s patient database

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    The FBI is investigating a cyber attack that has crippled the electronic database at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center for days, forcing doctors at the Los Angeles hospital to rely on telephones and fax machines to relay patient information. The origin of the computer network intrusion was unknown but since it began late last week has…

  • FDA recommends ban on blood collections from Zika-affected areas

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    By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Tuesday that blood should no longer be collected from regions where the Zika virus is circulating, and that blood needed for transfusions be obtained from areas of the country without active transmission. The agency said blood banks can continue collecting and…