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Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant – an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces – is “feeling…
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through…
A specialist surgeon is someone who focuses on a particular field of medicine such as cardiology, neurology, or another specific medical field. All specialist doctors have many years of education…
A young woman’s life could have been saved if she had had urgent surgery more quickly, a coroner has ruled. Arohaina Gilbert, 25, died within hours of being rushed to…
Building a new operating room is a complex process that involves balancing needs of facility staff with construction costs, while also looking forward to future healthcare trends. To make planning…
A carpenter who severed his hand with an electric saw, leaving it dangling from slivers of skin and bone, had it largely saved after surgeons temporarily reattached it to his…
Melbourne’s Austin Hospital has been forced to cancel 150 elective surgeries after a number of their medical washers broke down. In a statement, the hospital said it had realised there…
A doctor in India has performed a series of five percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures on patients who were 20 miles away from him. The feat was pulled off using…
At the MWC (25–26 February, Barcelona, Spain), formerly the Mobile World Congress, Philips unveiled a unique mixed reality concept developed in partnership with Microsoft for the operating room of the…
A UK-funded inflatable operating theatre that fits into a backpack is set to revolutionise surgery in emergencies when doctors are forced to operate on the hoof. Despite its Heath Robinson-like…
The Google Glass Technology The Google Glass is a small, lightweight wearable computer with a transparent display for hands-free work. Google Glass and other innovations allow the teaching of medical…
PHOTO A grade-two breast implant which is under review by the TGA.ABC NEWS: BRENDAN ESPOSITO Jane Downs has been diagnosed with cancer four times in 20 years. She never imagined…
Some of the medication is said to still be missing from Macclesfield Hospital. Image: max homer A man has appeared in court following a raid on an operating theatre at…
A problem involving sterilisation equipment has forced Brisbane’s busy PA hospital to suspend all surgery. (AAP) One woman was on the operating table at Princess Alexandra Hospital when she was…
Deciding on the right sterilization method for the appropriate surgical device has become a challenging quest. Increase in minimally invasive surgical procedures and the growth of more resistant microbes require…
The deadliest time for many surgery patients isn’t when they’re on the operating table, it’s while they’re recovering in the hospital and after they go home, a new study suggests.…
Sarah broke down in tears as she retold her traumatising ordeal A mother was left traumatised after undergoing months of chemotherapy and having her breasts removed – only to be…
The girls were craniopagus twins, with their skulls and blood vessels fused together. Two-year-old twins who were joined by their skulls and blood vessels have been successfully separated after having…
Doctors in India removed a whopping 33 objects, including razor blades and a screwdriver, from a man’s stomach after he complained of having pain in his abdomen, which is understandable.…
Shoulder replacement surgery involves removing damaged areas of your shoulder and replacing them with artificial parts. The procedure is performed to relieve pain and improve mobility. You might need a…
LASIK is the most commonly performed laser eye surgery to treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. The word “LASIK” is an acronym for “laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis.” Like other…
Across the country, surgeons are learning to use more than just scalpels and forceps. In the past decade, a growing number of medical institutions have invested in the da Vinci…
The NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has ordered an urgent investigation into a Sydney hospital after surgeons removed the wrong body part from a cancer patient last week. The male…
Amanda Kalan, M.D., (left) and Darrell Cass, M.D., (right) perform in utero spina bifida surgery. Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina…
The mother said that usually scissors are not used to cut open a baby’s bandage. (Picture for representation: Reuters) A major case of negligence has surfaced from a government hospital…
North York General Hospital (NYGH) values the safety of its patients, visitors, staff, physicians and volunteers. The Emergency Preparedness Committee is comprised of interdisciplinary staff members with links to external…
(SLBSGMCH) A stomach ache in India is making headlines after doctors were left shocked on recovering objects from a man’s stomach. Doctors at Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College…
Jasons International is a synergy of multinational humanitarian organizations with aims to bringing hope, health and development to rural communities and indigent citizens around the world, optimal medical emergency response…
For Spine, Orthopaedic Trauma, and Neurological Procedures OVERVIEW The O-armTM system is an intraoperative 2D/3D imaging system that is designed to meet the workflow demands of the surgical environment. It…
BRUSSELS – Belgium has long been famous for food, like waffles and chocolate. But it’s becoming famous for death. Belgium has the most liberal euthanasia laws in the world. You…