Items tagged with Surgery

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Designing Drugs and Their Antidotes Together

Monday, October 5th, 2009 - 19:31:22 - Ehud Rattner

Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately – because the...

The Sci-Fi Future of Surgery
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Advances in robotics are pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, whether in the form of worm-inspired capsules to...

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Tooth Helps Restore Desperate Woman's Sight

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 16:03:48 - Anuradha Menon

Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron "Kay" Thornton to suicide. In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never...

Brain Surgery With Sound Waves
Monday, September 7th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers from University Hospital Zurich and the Israeli company Insightec Ltd. have developed a new type of brain...

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Cell on a Chip

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - 14:11:53 - Anuradha Menon

The drug heparin is widely used to prevent blood from clotting in medical procedures ranging from dialysis to open-heart surgery. With a $6 billion...

Surgical Glues for Specific Applications

Friday, July 10th, 2009 - 09:07:33 - Anuradha Menon

Surgical adhesives, which can be used to seal tissues after an operation or to repair wounds, are becoming increasingly important parts of a doctor's...

Turning Connective Tissue into Bone
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A group of researchers from Linkoeping University in Linkoeping , Sweden, led by Prof. Gunnar Kratz, has successfully...

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'Beating' Heart Machine Expedites Research

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 18:46:00 - Anuradha Menon

A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the...

Robot Improves Partial Knee Replacements
Friday, May 1st, 2009 - Janice Karin
MAKO Surgical Corporation of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has developed a new partial knee replacement system incorporating a...

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Kidney Removed Through The Belly Button

Monday, April 27th, 2009 - 13:46:07 - Ehud Rattner

A surgeon at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is one of the first in the Midwest to use a new surgical technique that requires...

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