Can virtual reality ease pain enough to prevent prescription drug addiction?

Doctors hope that VR is a solution for the country consuming 80% the world’s opioid supply: the United States of America.

Jo Marchant, mosaic.com

· May 07, 2017 · 02:30 pm

A surgeon in Mexico is using virtual reality instead of sedation

Virtual reality is helping José Luis Mosso Vazquez perform surgical procedures in a mountaintop clinic with no access to drugs.

Jo Marchant, mosaic.com

· Feb 05, 2017 · 02:30 pm

You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine

Can we harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs?

Jo Marchant, mosaic.com

· Feb 22, 2016 · 08:30 pm