(HealthDay) -- One of the latest technological developments in medicine is an operating-room version of the airline industry's black box.
British doctor Ara Darzi, a professor of surgery at London's Imperial College, is leading the push to develop the recording device, says this report from New Scientist.
The device, which includes electronic sensors attached to a surgeon's fingers, would record everything doctors say and do, and it would also monitor everyone who comes into and out of the operating room, says the report.
Also on the technological horizon -- a micromachine shaped like a screw that would swim through human veins to bring drugs to a particular location or to burrow into tumors with a hot lance, says another New Scientist story.
And, in still another report from the same publication, Massachusetts scientists have developed a new device to keep donated organs viable longer.
