ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The world of virtual reality is giving doctors a new pathway to cure patients. In the past, some of these patients had no hope for a safe treatment with traditional surgery.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Dr. Allison Hoppe’s eyes were glued to the computer screen Monday as she carefully maneuvered a controller and scanned for lesions during a simulated colonoscopy at Corewell ...

From childbirth to wound care, virtual reality is being used to distract patients from their surgical pain — cutting down the need for painkillers and sedatives, according to a Mosaic Science analysis ...