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Reducing inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Reducing inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis research from the Bionics Institute in Melbourne, Australia: Our researchers are developing a drug-free treatment to treat rheumatoid arthritis using vagus nerve stimulation. Researchers at the Bionics Institute are developing an innovative drug-free treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. The treatment uses an electrical medical device to target the nervous system and […]

Depth perception in key-hole surgery

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Hippocratic Post

When Phillipe Bozzini first designed and used his Lichtleiter in 1803 to peer into the human body, the medical world unwittingly became reliant on observing the endoscopic view of the human body in only two dimensions and this was 35 years before the mechanism of depth perception was even understood. In 1838 Charles Wheatstone was […]