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.

Healing is getting a high-tech upgrade at St. Jude. Its most recent virtual reality program is changing the way young patients experience treatment. WREG got the chance to watch ...

Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom holds that technology makes medical care less human, less personal. But watching patient Wanda Touard with virtual reality goggles on her head and controllers in her hands, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Virtual reality is used a lot for games and entertainment, but now it's being used to help reduce pre-surgical anxiety. The technology is being used with patients at Nuvance ...