Developer Level Ex raised $ 11 million in a Series A round of financing to continue creating games that are aimed at replicating operating room scenarios. It previously created the virtual surgery training app Airway Ex, and with the funds it’s just raised, it will also start to experiment with augmented reality and virtual reality. […]
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Navy Surgeon General calls photos of Navy nurse flipping off newborn babies ‘highly offensive’
YouTube The Navy’s Surgeon General has sent a message to Navy Medicine commanders around the world criticizing the “highly offensive” photos of a nurse flipping off newborn babies at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida. Vice Adm. Forrest Faison called the photos “unprofessional and inappropriate” behavior that was inconsistent with the service’s core values of honor, courage, and […]
Who is Prince Harry’s most beautiful ex? A plastic surgeon weighs in
Prince Harry, 32, has been linked to Caroline Flack, Camilla Thurlow, Cressida Bonas, Chelsy Davy and Florence Brudenell-Bruce. Now he is dating US actress Meghan Markle, but which of his former love interests is the most attractive, according to a plastic surgeon? Mr Mo Akhavani is a consultant and cosmetic plastic surgeon, at The […]
A surgeon aiming to do the first human head transplant says ‘Frankenstein’ predicted a crucial part of the surgery
OOOM Agency To Sergio Canavero, “Frankenstein” is scientific inspiration. The Italian neurosurgeon told Business Insider that Mary Shelley’s classic novel convinced him that he could complete the world’s first full-body transplant. Canavero claims he’ll complete the procedure on a human next fall in China. Not only did the book reveal a missing piece in his […]
The outlandish surgeon who aims to do the first body transplant says he wants to create a ‘full death experience’
OOOM Agency During a recent Skype call, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero waved a tattered grey book in front of the camera and said it contained one of the keys to the outlandish procedure he claims to be on track to complete this year: the world’s first full-body transplant. The book was “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel […]
Man awarded $870,000 after surgeon removes wrong testicle
Published time: 17 Jun, 2017 17:12 A Pennsylvania man has been awarded almost one million dollars after a botched surgery left him with only one testical – the one he didn’t want removed. Steven Haines, 54, had been suffering from chronic pain in his right testicle for 15 years. In 2013, he finally sought help […]
Montreal surgeon 1st in North America to use augmented reality technology on sinus patients
The McGill University Health Centre’s Dr. Mark Tewfik is breaking ground by using a new medical technology — augmented reality — for sinus operations. CBC | Health News
‘We’ll try to bring patients back to life’: Surgeon plans to ‘revive’ frozen human brains by 2020
The first human head transplant will take place in less than a year, to be followed by the world’s first transplantation of a cryogenically preserved brain in three years’ time. That’s according to ambitious neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero. The Italian doctor shared the preliminary timetable after announcing to the world four years ago that he was […]
Thomas Starzl, first surgeon to perform a liver transplant, dead at 90
Dr. Thomas Starzl, who pioneered liver transplant surgery in the 1960s and was a leading researcher into anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90. CBC | Health News
Wearing a bra to bed could be DANGEROUS reveals surgeon
From the likes of Marilyn Monroe to broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, these celebrities truly believed that wearing your bra to bed will prevent your breasts from sagging. Whilst other myths suggested that actually wearing your bra to bed is the cause of sagging. But now, expert Dr Seth Rankin, has put theses theories to bed saying […]
