surgery
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Man Gets Easiest Kidney Transplant Ever, Goes Home a Day Later
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Illinois have pulled off a medical first that could make organ transplants a much easier ordeal to endure. They were able to perform a kidney transplant in a 28-year-old man without the use of general anesthesia. The surgery went so well that the man was discharged less than a day…
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Bronze Age Brain Surgery: 3,500-Year-Old Skull Found With Square-Inch Hole
For 3,500 years, a curious medical case has been buried beneath the floor of a Bronze Age building in Israel. Now, a team of archaeologists has studied the remains of two wealthy brothers entombed there, finding that both likely struggled with chronic infectious disease in childhood. The two skeletons showed signs of porosity, lesions, and…
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A Surgery-Performing Robot Is Ready for Tests on the International Space Station
The robot is named MIRA, which stands for ‘miniaturised in-vivo robotic assistant’, and will hitch a ride to the ISS in 2024.
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Experimental Robot Surgeon Can Operate Without Human Help
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere say their robot was able to pull off a complicated and delicate surgical procedure on a pig without the assistance of humans for the first time. What’s more, the robot even appeared to do the job better than human surgeons.