Surgeons at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto are experimenting with Microsoft's Xbox Kinect to view images such as MRI or CT scans in the operating room. …
Category: Surgery
Saving faces of the severely disfigured
Iain Hutchison is a maxillofacial surgeon in the United Kingdom who specializes in treating people whose faces have been severely disfigured. His foundation, Saving Faces, …
TED Talk looks at porcine parts in medicine
In this TED Talk, Christina Meindertsma, author of Pig 05049, looks at the absolutely stunning range of products that are produced using parts from a …
Surgery through natural orifices: some pros and cons
Ever since I assigned writer Sara Wykes to do a story on natural orifice surgery for the latest Stanford Medicine magazine, I've continued to come …
King of Kong, MD: Plastic surgeon breaks Donkey Kong world-record
In case you missed the news, the world record for highest score achieved on the classic arcade game Donkey Kong has been broken. New York-based …
KevinMD says plastic surgeons lead in social media
Kevin Pho, MD, has a short piece up this morning arguing that plastic surgeons are leaders in using social media for marketing. Part of this, …
Can you catch appendicitis?
Appendicitis is the most common reason for emergency general surgery. According to new research out of UT Southwestern Medical Center, it may be caused at …
Plastic surgery used to change fingerprints
In a story that draws up Hollywood images of criminal masterminds who keep plastic surgeons on the payroll to alter their appearance, the BBC has …
Face It
In the 1997 Academy Award-nominated movie Face/Off, terrorist Nicholas Cage had his face surgically replaced with that of FBI agent and sworn enemy John Travolta. …