Tag: DOCTORS

Today in Things You Didn't Already Know: turns out, you cannot actually treat disease with the Internet! Not even large doses of it! Despite that fact that almost everyone consumes massives quantities of Internet on a daily basis, it is not necessarily good for your health. Fox News even talked to some upside-down doctors in Australia, and they confirmed that the World Wide Web is no substitute ...

British researchers have developed a new formula capable of predicting any couple's chances of having a baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with up to 99-percent accuracy. Devised by researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol, the calculator is already available online, and will soon be available as an app for iPhone and Android. According to research leader Scott Nelson, a ...

Doctors at McGill University Health Center in Montreal have performed the first ever robot-assisted surgery on a patient, without any direct doctor-to-patient contact. Of course, robotic surgery isn't a new approach in medicine, and, no, these 'bots aren't autonomous. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and Dr. Armin Aprikian controlled robots named McSleepy and DaVinci, as they administered anesthesia and ...

In 2007, we were introduced to the term "cyberchondriac," which refers to a person who constantly looks up health information online, presumably in an effort to self-diagnose illnesses. Now Harris Interactive, the group that coined the phrase, has updated its prior study, and shown that more and more people are using the Web to demystify symptoms -- or perceived symptoms, anyway. Since 2009, the ...

In a story that is guaranteed to give us nightmares for a good week, the Guardian reports that a Belgian man whom doctors diagnosed as comatose 23 years ago was, in fact, conscious the entire time. Following a nearly fatal car crash in 1983, Rom Houben was believed to be in a "vegetative state," incapable of feeling or hearing anything. Three years ago, though, neurologist Steven Laureys decided ...

It's been a long, long time since most doctors stopped making house calls (unless you count the iPod Doctor). People have gotten used to the idea of heading into the office to sit in a waiting room and thumb through a dull yet well-read magazine. However, Internet-based house calls are looking as though they may become far more common in the not-too-distant future, and a new study published in ...

Sure this sounds almost impossible, but Reuters is reporting it, we're not just making this stuff up. On July 21, a blackout hit the city of Villa Mercedes in the San Luis province of Argentina. Leonardo Molina was on the operating table when the lights went out, undergoing an emergency appendix surgery. The backup generators should have immediately switched on, but for some reason they failed. ...