Tag: SURGERY

This past October, a British doctor volunteering in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo performed an emergency amputation on a severely injured young man, the BBC and Textually.org reported earlier today. Dr. David Nott operated on the boy under the direction of his London colleague, Dr. Meirion Thomas. Or, rather, under the direction of Dr. Thomas's text messages. Although Dr. Nott ...

The booming cost of health care in the United States and the successful deployment of international telecommunications infrastructure has created a booming market in Telemedicine, the practice of providing medical services from remote locations. US Hospitals are currently sending a large number of your x-rays, MRIs and CT scans to Bangalore, India to be processed and analyzed. Most of the ...

Scientists are working to develop a sort of miracle cure for many eye problems. The super lenses can correct near sightedness and far sightedness as well as repair or even prevent cataracts. The technology is an attempt to combine the stiff plastic lenses that have been implanted in patients after cataract surgery for decades with the relatively newer, flexible intraocular lenses that correct ...

Neurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake -- a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from a still-conscious patient, using a computerized laser and an MRI scanner to guide the probe. The fiber-optic laser was fed ...

Most of us are nervous enough having a human open us up and play around with our inside parts, but the thought of letting our mortal enemies, the robots, do it is just unthinkable. David Roughly decided to trust his prostate cancer surgery to a four armed metallic doc anyway, and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Because of the agility and precision of the robo-doc, Roughly suffered ...

Think of brain surgery and you probably think of a room full of doctors and nurses each holding specialized equipment, surrounding a patient draped in sterilized blankets in a room of polished stainless steel and glass. Imagine a guy holding a rechargeable handheld drill and using it on someone's head, though, and you'd probably think it was a scene from a horror movie and not a medical ...

Cellphones are quickly becoming the goto method of illumination for hospitals around the world when power fails. We've reported on an appendectomy in Argentina performed by the light of a mobile handset. Then, in March, Vietnamese doctors delivered a baby via caesarian-section illuminated by cell phones. Now another child has been brought into this world with the help of cell-phone screens. ...

This week, at the first international conference on breast enlargement taking place in London, Patrick Mallucci will present a formula that he claims makes up the perfect set of breasts. He is sharing his discovery in the hopes of helping other plastic surgeons that also perform breast enlargements. According to Mallucci, it's all about the location of the nipple. He says that on the perfect ...

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. ...