A pioneering medical procedure has given a ten year old Russian girl her voice back - after years of silence. Yulia Moiseenko was left unable to speak when she was hit by a drunk driver. But the unique operation gave her a second chance.A pioneering medical procedure has given a ten year old Russian girl her voice back -... more
Researchers in Australia plan to test a medical "scaffold" designed to stimulate natural breast tissue to regrow following surgery.
Doctors from the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, will test the technique next year in a trial involving six patients.
The team say that the permanent fat found in breasts can be grown inside this contoured scaffold.
"They claim to have successfully tested the device in pigs" sounds promising!
in all seriousness, we should be so much further with our medical technology, all the billions upon billions being poured into research etc over the years.
However i'm sure this surgery, if successfull, should be welcomed by many women over the world.
Women who have surgery to improve the looks of their genitalia are shockingly unaware of the the potential risks, according to this report.Women who have surgery to improve the looks of their genitalia are shockingly unaware... more
Excellent tips from the American Society of Anesthesiologist on preparing your child for surgery.Excellent tips from the American Society of Anesthesiologist on preparing your child... more
"Researchers in Australia have come up with an outwardly simple but incredibly ingenious way of curing blindness caused by corneal damage: Take everyday contact lenses, already used by millions (including me), and infuse them with a patient's own stem cells. After wearing them for about 2 weeks, test subjects reported a seemingly miraculous restoration of sight. Is it that easy?
Most of the patients had only lost vision in one eye, so stem cells were harvested from their good eye and then plated onto contact lenses. After letting the stem cells repair damaged tissues, 2 of the 3 patients went from legally blind to being able to read some of an eye chart. The third patient actually regained enough sight to pass a driving exam. Researchers are still monitoring the stability of the treatment, but the results seem promising, if not mind blowing.
So far they’ve only targeted corneal damage, which is estimated to be the cause of sight loss in about 1.5 million people every year. The simplicity and relatively low cost of the procedure could make it available in more impoverished areas. Even a congenital defect in both eyes, aniridia, was cured using stem cells taken from a different part of the eye. Once the process is perfected and tested extensively, researchers think in the future they can use it to cure blindness that afflicts other parts of the eye. "
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Yet another amazing advancement in the field of science. I love seeing things like this as they're developed. The article says that it's a pretty simple procedure, so how long do you think until it gains widespread prominence?"Researchers in Australia have come up with an outwardly simple but incredibly... more
When Miami Metrozoo employees noticed Josephine, the 42 year old gorilla grandmother, began isolating herself, they could tell something was amiss. After a few routine tests they found that Josephine was in tip-top shape, save for one thing. She was going blind.When Miami Metrozoo employees noticed Josephine, the 42 year old gorilla grandmother,... more
For well over 2,000 years, humans have employed Hirudo for bloodletting, a practice thought to restore balance to the body's humors and heal everything from headaches to hemorrhoids.
In 1985, Harvard plastic surgeon Joseph Upton was called to care for a 5-year-old boy whose ear had been bitten off by a dog. Ears, which have very small blood vessels, had never been successfully replanted. Upton had no trouble with the boy's arteries, but as he worked through the night reconnecting the veins, clots began to form.
Upton had used maggots to clean severe infections while serving in the Army, so the idea of a natural remedy came easily to him. He phoned Biopharm, a company in Swansea, Wales, owned by zoologist Roy T. Sawyer, who breeds Hirudo on the world's only leech farm.
Jeff Kepner, an American father who had a double arm transplant after losing his hands 10 years ago, has spoken of his joy at the operation's success but says that he has been left with hands hairier than his body.
It took a team of 10 surgeons to attach the hands and forearms to Kepner's amputed arms, which stopped just after the elbow. Kepner is now learning to grip and pick up small objects again.Jeff Kepner, an American father who had a double arm transplant after losing his hands... more
Sharon Thornton, a blind woman from Mississippi, USA, can now see after one of her teeth was pulled from her mouth, fitted to hold an optical lens and implanted in her eye.
Thornton's was the first surgery of its kind in the US. The procedure is called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP) and was developed in Italy. Overseas, it's been successfully performed on about 1000 people.
Thornton had been blind since a rare skin condition left her cornea so scarred and dry that doctors were unable to giver her a cornea transplant.
"Her eye was like a desert," Thornton's surgeon said. He (ironically) used Thronton's eyetooth in the procedure. It held the lens and was sealed inside the eyeball with a mucous layer taken from the lining of Thornton's mouth.Sharon Thornton, a blind woman from Mississippi, USA, can now see after one of her... more
"A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing problem in operating rooms.""A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while... more
The following list of 25 incredible medical operations are so wild that you may not think they are possible. But in fact, they are!The following list of 25 incredible medical operations are so wild that you may not... more
As modern life brings about so much pressure, many people have thought of undergoing plastic surgery with aims to enhance their physical attributes and beauty. Plastic surgery is no longer an expensive luxury expense, and thus most of the teenagers have taken this advantage to imitate their favorite idols by altering their natural appearances in order to achieve their desired self-esteem. In contrary, alien, stretched, and expressionless faces worn by some celebrities can cost them a lifetime as they lead to permanent disfiguring and scaring. Are people with plastic surgery really that much happier than they were in the good old days?As modern life brings about so much pressure, many people have thought of undergoing... more
isa Sanders' monthly "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times Magazine was an inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House.
The medical drama, which made its debut in 2004, stars Hugh Laurie as an eccentric but inspired medical diagnostician who, episode after episode, works out what's causing the odd symptoms his patients are showing up with.
Sanders, an internist on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, is the show's technical advisor, a former CBS News producer, and an author. Her new book is Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art ofisa Sanders' monthly "Diagnosis" column in The New York Times Magazine was an... more
A 19 year-old from Cheshire has received Britain's first eyelash transplant. And no, she didn't get the eyelashes shown in the picture (but wouldn't that be cool?!)
The teen suffers from trichotillomania - obsessive plucking or pulling out hair. During the procedure, hairs are taken from the back of the head and placed individually into cuts in the eyelid. The lashes gradually thicken up 4-6 months later.
The patient said: "Having suffered from trichotillomania for 17 years, I learned to accept that I'd never have real lashes again. That's quite a hard issue for a young girl to come to terms with. When I heard about this treatment it sounded too good to be true but the results are absolutely amazing."A 19 year-old from Cheshire has received Britain's first eyelash transplant. And no,... more
British surgeons have removed a melon-sized tumour from the face of a 3 year-old Iraqi boy.
Saif Basim needed the life-saving surgery to stop the benign tumour from eventually choking him to death by crushing his windpipe. He had been unable to smile for the last year and could only open his mouth a few centimeters to eat.
Saif couldn't have the surgery in Iraq, so a British surgical charity used a loan to fund the procedure at a London hospital.
12 British surgeons and doctors worked for free to remove the 1lb 10oz growth.
Saif has recovered and is nearly ready to go home. The charity that funded the surgery is now desperately trying to raise funds to pay back the £35,000 loan.British surgeons have removed a melon-sized tumour from the face of a 3 year-old Iraqi... more
53 patients at UW Hospital in Madison, WI, have been informed they may have been operated on with contaminated surgical instruments, and are therefore at risk of contracting a rare but fatal brain disorder.
The instruments were used on a woman who died Tuesday of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She underwent surgery at the hospital in June. She was initially operated on for a brain tumor, which was thought to cause her symptoms. Once her diagnosis of CJD was confirmed, hospital officials they stopped using the surgical instruments immediately, but all patients who received neurosurgery during that 40-day window have been informed.
The hospital says it plans to use those surgical instruments again after a heightened sterilization process.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an always-fatal disorder that claims the lives of about 390 per year in the United States. The disease is part of the "Mad Cow" family, but is not the same as mad cow disease.
(Full and more in-depth article at link)53 patients at UW Hospital in Madison, WI, have been informed they may have been... more
In this video, surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demonstrates some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- and very graphic.In this video, surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and... more
Call it the Victoria Beckham effect? London's Harley Medical Group has reported an astonishing 30 per cent rise in nipple surgery over the last 12 months.
Not only that, but a spokesperson for Bosomfriends.co.uk, a website dedicated to nipples prostheses announced they had recorded a “significant increase” in the sale of prosthetic nipples in the past year.
So what's going on? Victoria Beckham's recent pert appearance in a transparent black t-shirt ignited fresh speculation over whether her nipples are real or fake and it seems she might have launched a new trend.
'Until now celebrities didn't expose their nipples so they were no "nipple role models",' explains Dr Riccardo Frati, a cosmetic surgeon for the Harley Medical Group.
As shocking as it sounds, nipple surgery is becoming more accessible. 'Until recently, women didn't know they could alter the shape, colour and size of their nipples,' explains Dr Frati.
Nipple surgery - which can cost anything up to £2,000 if done privately - is an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of treatments. Nipple lifts involve creating several small flaps of skin around the actual nipple which will then push it up and out.
Asymmetrical nipples can be evened out and even the areola (the pigmented area around the nipple), can be tattooed if you are not happy with your nipple colour.
One of the most common procedures is the correction of inverted nipples - when the nipple is flat or concave and refuses to protrude or become erect on it's own. The condition can interfere with breastfeeding and is thought to affect around 1.5 million women in the UK.
Although to date the majority of nipple procedures are performed on post-mastectomy patients, cosmetic surgeons such as Dr Frati are seeing more and more women who simply want the operation for aesthetic reasons.
As with any surgery, there are risks involved and any woman considering such a procedure should consider all her options, even false silicone nipples, which at a cost of less than £5, are a lot cheaper - and a lot less shocking - than going under the knife.Call it the Victoria Beckham effect? London's Harley Medical Group has reported an... more
Nina’s medical records show she was due for an operation on her left eye, but the doctor operated on her right. To make things worse, Nina later tripped up in the ward and broke her hip. She says the clinic failed to call an ambulance or provide help. She never fully recovered and now needs a wheelchair.Nina’s medical records show she was due for an operation on her left eye, but the... more
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