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A six-year old dog called Henry injured his back badly a year ago, after falling down the stairs. He suddenly stopped walking and lost the sense in his legs. Henry became emotionally depressed, and couldn’t do the normal activities he use to do before. But state of the art medical intervention restored Henry’s senses and started to walk again after only one month of his surgery. How amazing [...]

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 [...]

A leading U.S hospital performed successfully the nation’s second partial face transplant. The procedure took place at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on a man who suffered sever injuries to his face during a car accident. The man couldn’t’ eat, smile or effectively interact with people. “It’s really difficult to live without a major part of the face — the social interactions, [...]

Doctors in the U.K preformed the first of its kind surgery where they used muscles and tissue from a patient’s unaffected elbow to create a new shoulder after it was amputated after a cancer at Leeds General Hospital in England. Tom Lemm, 15, from Pontefract, lost his left arm after suffering from cancer “a tumor” at the top of the limb. Tom’s surgeons said that they removed [...]

Surgical robots now play an important roll in the surgery room, they help surgeons perform complex surgeries that need accurate and more precise movements than the surgeon’s hand. A surgical team led by Dr. Ashok Hemal, a urologic surgeon from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, performed a laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina. This disorder [...]

Blood stopper: The clear fluid in this dish transforms into a gel in the presence of blood; such a gel can stops bleeding almost instantly. Credit: Asia Kepka A new nanostructured material that stops bleeding almost immediately was first developed by MIT under the supervision of Floyd Loop a current advisor to Arch Therapeutics and former cardiovascular surgeon. The new substance is called Arch Therapeutic [...]