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Man Who Received a Double Hand Transplant Writes Letter of Thanks to Doctors
The first person to have a double hand transplant has written a letter of thanks to the doctors who made it possible. Chris King, the recipient of the transplant, is now able to write letters, hold a cup of tea and form a fist. Things he thought would be impossible…
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Unmanned Robot Can Now Stich Up Patients After Operations
When you go under the scalpel for the first time you often think about what comes after the surgery as much as you do the actual operation. Thanks to a new line of robots you may not have to worry about your doctor making a mistake on that final step.…
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Stem Cells Could Repair Cataracts
Cataracts are the most common reason for blindness in today’s world. Cataracts are when the lens in your eye becomes clouded and while often associated with the elderly, it also affects the young and even infants. While there is a surgical option to address this issue, a group in China…
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Doctors Implant 3D-Printed Vertebrae
3D Printers have helped medicine come a long way, with the ability to customise and create things in an easy and cost-effective way that previously would have been impossible to do. 3D-printed ribs, to livers, eyes and even ears. While these are all amazing feats, they have always been generic items, things which…
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Google Cardboard Used to help Save a Baby’s Life
It is mostly the Oculus Rift and the Sony’s Playstation VR that take the headlines these days, but that doesn’t mean that simpler tools such as the Google Cardboard can’t be useful. In this case it was extremely useful as it helped to plan an operation virtually first and quite…
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3-Year-Old Chinese Girl Gets 3D Printed Titanium Skull
A 3-year-old girl in China has had her skull successfully replaced with a 3D printed aluminium alloy substitute in an operation that lasted 17 hours. The toddler, called Han Han, suffered from hydrocephalus – known as “water on the brain” for the fluid that collects around the organ – causing…
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Man Saves Wife’s Sight With 3D Print-Out of Her Tumour
Back in 2013, Californian 3D graphic artist Michael Balzer took it upon himself to intervene in the treatment of his wife’s brain tumour, and saved her sight in the process. Pamela Shavaun Scott, Balzer’s wife, discovered after an MRI scan in August 2013 that she had a brain tumour, positioned…
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3D Printing Aids Surgeons to Save Five Year Old Boys Life
3D printing is once again showing how it can be a life changing piece of technology after a team of surgeons in Spain used their 3D printers to help save the life of a 5-year old cancer patient. The boy was suffering from neuroblastoma, which meant that he needed to…
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University of Michigan Health System Develops First Bionic Eye
I think some of you out there might have wanted to know how will it be to have bionic a bionic eye. Sure, infra-red vision, optical zoom and object analysis might be a day dream for some, but apparently the tech is starting to move from the land of fiction…
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Bitcoins Now Accepted By Major Cosmetic Surgery Medial Center
As Bitcoin becomes more and more established in our lives we are hearing of more and more ways you can spend the digital currency around the world. You can almost anything these days with Bitcoin, but with Vanity Cosmetic Surgery now also accepting the cryptocurrency, you can also use it…
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