Volume 40, Number 5

May 2011

Burden of End-Stage Organ Failures on Quality of Life and Impact on Society

This month’s issue of AAMS features various aspects of technology in Biomedical Engineering in the treatment of diseases and restoration of new organs. This...

Robotics in Gynaecology: A Very Brief History

The daVinci robotic surgical platform (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA) is the only FDA-approved robotic surgical system for use in humans. The daVinci first made...

Gynaecologic Robot-Assisted Cancer and Endoscopic Surgery (GRACES) in a Tertiary Referral Centre

Hysterectomy is the most common major gynaecologic operation. Over 600,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in the US. In Singapore, almost 9000 hysterectomies are performed...

Biomimetic Nanostructured Materials — Potential Regulators for Osteogenesis?

Bone is the second most common transplantation tissue after blood. Globally, at least 2.2 million of bone grafting procedures are performed annually and approximately...

Enhancement of a Master-Slave Robotic System for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery

Minimally invasive surgery has been widely accepted clinically and developed rapidly in the past decades. It has become the method of choice in many...