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Washington Post Examines Increase in Minorities Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

...rs -- such as ones Battle helped develop -- enable surgeons to 'treat the darkest African and Indian skin safe...disposable income and a growth in minority plastic surgeons who can provide culturally sensitive care, the Post reports. Harris said, 'Half the world's going to...

Robotic Surgery A Cutting Edge in Medical Field

Robots that perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the...nd Computer Assisted Surgery reports Now a team of surgeons and scientists have shown that the surgeon and robot can be linked via a 4,000 mile Internet connect...

OrthoGlide(TM) Medial Knee Implant Reports Over 200 Implants

...a significant increase in the number of orthopedic surgeons interested in attending the surgeon training progr...O of Advanced Bio-Surfaces. "The number of trained surgeons has more than doubled in the last six months, proving that orthopedic surgeons want a minimally inva...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

US surgeons were forced to halt a delicate and high-risk procedure to separate twin girls joined at the head because of unexpected brain swelling, doctors said Thursday. Three-year-old Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru, whose parents are from Romania, were describ...

Radical Idea of Implanting Tiny Electrodes to the Deaf

...dlebrooks says. Middlebrooks has talked with U-M surgeons in otolaryngology about surgical approaches in humans, and is working with U-M biomedical engineers on an intraneural device that can remain in place and be tested further in animals over the next two years. The devices need to be studied over time t...

Transplant Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

...care for a living patient, and representatives and surgeons from an organ procurement organization, who have an obligation to find organs for as many needy people as possible. Jennie Aungst, a nurse at Lakeland, hopes the crash brings greater awareness to organ donation. "They could be your brothers, sister...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

...agm defects which is currently in use by pediatric surgeons and pathologists at several institutions. We anticipate that widespread use of a standard approach to CDH classification will improve the quality of information in the medical literature, and ultimately will be used to develop genotype-phenotype corr...

Double Lung Transplant Man in Michigan Recovering

...e a most traumatic double lung transplant, for the surgeons that is. A team at University of Michigan Health was all keyed up Monday last to perform a double lung transplant on a man, critically ill with emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involving damage to the a...

Surgeons Shocked By Green-Blooded Man

Around two years back, a team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding greenish-black blood . Describing the case in the Lancet, lead doctor Dr. Alana Flexman from St Pauls Hospital in Vancouver, wrote how his team was startled to discover green blood ...

Laser Driven Stem Cell Surgery in Spain

A team of surgeons and haematologists at a hospital here have succeeded in implanting stem cells with lasers in the hearts of two patients, Spanish news agency EFE said . Juan Duarte, head of the cardiac surgery unit at La Princesa University Hospital, said the stem ...

Breast Reduction Surgery Among Boys Rising in US

...ndition known as gynecomastia. So they undergo the surgeons knife readily . In 2006, according to the American...the visibility of enlarged male breasts. Plastic surgeons in the United States suggested that the rise in popularity of professional golf may have also contri...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...'s smallest surgeons. In fact they are better than surgeons - they are much cheaper and work 24 hours a day," Professor Boulton jokingly said. "They have been used since the Napoleonic Wars and in the American Civil War they found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kept...

Young Woman's Eyes Gouged Out By Her Partner

...tion is otherwise stable. She was operated upon by surgeons for 5 hours, in a bid to save her eyes. The police managed to nab the accused from his house, though he had fled the scene after a publican came to the rescue of the woman on hearing her screams. The man appeared before a bail justice in Kyneton ...

Simple System Accurately Predicts Weight-loss Surgery Risk

... M.D., who developed the system. "The system gives surgeons concrete data they can use in surgical decision-ma...e losing weight before the surgery. Alternatively, surgeons could perform a series of smaller, and therefore less risky, procedures over time. Source-Eurekale...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...hen the “no-scar surgery” caught on. Laparoscopic surgeons from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and ... reach the gallbladder or other organs. But first, surgeons have to develop techniques to make sure that the cuts in the stomach and intestine can be sealed com...

Shockwave Lithotripsy is Effective for Pediatric Urolithiasis

...n stone treatment, it is our responsibility as the surgeons to follow these children long term to ensure that not only is it an efficacious modality but safe with no long term morbidity to the patients. Source-Newswise...

Top UK Surgeon Who Loved Himalayas is Dead

Robert Roaf, one of the world's leading spinal surgeons who was keenly interested in Buddhism and traveled to India in pursuit of his love for the Himalayas, has died at the age// of 93. Born in 1913, Roaf spent his early childhood in London and won a scholarship to Winchester College at the age of 13 a...

No-scalpel Vasectomies by Skilled Surgeons may Speed Recovery

...ay not be available in all places in the world and surgeons who learned how to do vasectomies using the standa...Lanka and Thailand. All eight physicians — general surgeons and urologists — had experience with the standard vasectomy technique and three had experience with ...

HeartLander - Futuristic Medical Technology Takes Off

... purposes, a camera added to the device would help surgeons see specifically where the robot is on the heart's surface. Lead researcher Dr. Cameron Riviere says that the device avoids having to stop the heart, disturb the ribcage, or deflate the left lung to access the heart, -hence reducing the risk of ill...

Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission

... brains behind the robot's movements will be three surgeons in front of a computer screen in Seattle: Drs. Mika Sinanan and Andrew Wright of the University of Washington's Medical Center, and Dr. Thomas Lendvay of Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle. Instructions will travel over a co...

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