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Parenting in the hospital is stressful. Moms and dads naturally focus on their ill child, sometimes to the neglect of their own mental health. A Stanford Medicine team has found an effective way to ...

A London hospital is using VR to make medical testing more comfortable for children. King’s College Hospital teamed with one of the hospital’s play specialists to create an app that — when worn before ...

Virtual reality is starting to pay off in the medical field, as one major VR pilot test is being expanded to train more doctors. In 2016, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) partnered with Facebook ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pediatric cardiologists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are taking inspiration from the video-game and consumer technology industries to leverage ...

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Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Bradley and Montgomery (BaM), an independent creative agency, recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind virtual reality (VR) room that depicts a patient’s room at Riley Hospital for Children. The virtual ...

The use of virtual reality (and even video games) as an alternative form of pain management isn't exactly unheard of. Researchers are well aware of VR's potential to distract patients at the dentist ...

There are numerous ways that care teams at Packard Children’s are introducing VR use in the hospital. The Children’s Heart Center, whose leading Stanford pediatric cardiac specialists perform about ...

A hospital in Japan has turned to virtual reality (VR) and enhanced camera technology as a potential solution to research and education challenges posed by the novel coronavirus outbreak. At the time ...