With a futuristic headset wrapped around her head, Dr. Sarah Murthi looks as if she is ready to play a video game. But the surgeon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, dressed in pink scrubs, is instea… ...

A trip to the emergency room can be a scary experience for any child, but now Middlesex Health is turning to new technology ...

Thanks to new technologies, doctors can see, and feel, a body in entirely new ways. WSJ's Amy Westervelt explains what happens when medical imaging meets virtual reality. Photo: EchoPixel The ...

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies are redefining various fields, including medicine. These advanced technologies are rapidly being adopted in medical training and therapy, ...

With a futuristic headset wrapped around her head, Dr. Sarah Murthi looks as if she is ready to play a video game. But the surgeon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, dressed in pink scrubs, is instea… ...

Virtual reality is emerging in healthcare as a high-tech solution to problems as varied as training doctors, reducing medical errors and helping patients manage pain.

Treatment with virtual reality appears to work very well for people with psychosis. It works faster than the current ...

A new study published in the Journal of Patient Experience provides preliminary evidence that virtual reality–guided ...

I believe that Virtual Reality technologies have the potential to radically change and substantially improve health-related behavior, and thus radically improve health and wellbeing, by equipping ...

Virtual reality has an advantage, of course, because when you put your headset on, whether it's a smartphone and a headset, or a tethered or a large device, more powerful devices, we're ...

There are days when Andrew Sweeney transforms from a 38-year-old industrial designer into a superhero. In his Columbus, Ohio, office, with one familiar swipe of his smartphone, he becomes an ...