Surgical Robot Find Tiny Shrapnel Without any Human Help
June 29, 2009 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Featured, Future Technology, Health And Medicine
Biopsy is a small surgical procedure to extract a living tissue from your body for medical testing for suspected diseases such as cancer. There is several different type of biopsy, and each one of them has its own technique. But what brought my attention today is a new robot surgeon that successfully found and guided a needle to a sliver of steel shrapnel, completely without human help.
According to Duke University where the experiment was performed, this new technology will reduce the cost of Biopsy and reduce the time as well.
“Eventually you could have a ten-dollar biopsy done inside in a supermarket” said Steve Smith, a doctor at Duke University and co-author of a paper describing the work in the journal IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. Discovery Channel Report
Life-Saving Surgery Saved A Boy With 3.3kg Cancer Tumor In His Stomach
October 29, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Health And Medicine
This baby boy – Alex Gonzaga was born in New Zealand with 3.3kg tumor inside his stomach. Doctors saved Alex’s life and removed the cancer tumor within two hours.
