Vlad Frenk

Vlad Frenk, MD, is a board-certified cardiac anesthesiologist and our editor. Dr. Frenk graduated with his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California San Francisco. He went on to fulfill his anesthesiology residency and cardiac fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He is dedicated to clinical research and discoveries of new trends in medical technologies. He has been published his work for Medgadget and numerous scientific publications and has lectured on medical technologies topics.

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Surgery

September 5th, 2018 CMR Surgical, a Cambridge, UK firm, is formally unveiling its Versius surgical robotic system that is designed to be portable, easy to setup, and, perhaps most importantly, affordable for hospitals that otherwise would have budget limitations obtaining existing robotic systems. The Versius is modular in its design, with the moving...
Materials

September 5th, 2018 A collaboration between researchers at University of Cambridge in the UK and École Nationale Supérieure des Mines and INSERM in France has developed a device that can sense electrical brain activity and deliver a pre-loaded drug dose in response. It has already been tried on mice undergoing seizures, releasing a native brain...
Nanomedicine

September 4th, 2018 Scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a way to get nanoparticles to group and move as swarms, similar to how hundreds of bees and birds can fly together. The technology may have implications for medicine, helping to guide nanoparticles toward certain organs or sites of cancer. The research team's...
Neurology

August 31st, 2018 Draper, an engineering firm in Cambridge, MA, has developed a tiny wireless neuromodulation device that may be small enough to implant into the interior of the cranium right against the brain. Current brain stimulators are placed, like pacemakers, under the skin in the chest, with electric leads reaching out through the...
Psychiatry

August 22nd, 2018 Drugs have been the go-to therapy for psychiatrists treating depression, but implantable neurostimulators have been making substantial impact lately. A national study headed by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wanted to find out how well this drug-free technique can control serious depression. The...
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