Browsing all posts in December, 2006.

Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

I will be offline until January 2nd, and
I would like to wish all of you, dear readers that you find yourself next to your loved ones in this Christmas, and have a healthy and successful New Year!

Best of all,
Jon

Soriano’s Surgical Retractor in-action

This is the previously patented surgical retractor developed by Dr. Ángel Raúl Soriano Sánchez (Mexican Ob/Gyn from the National Institute for Social Security – IMSS) in action.

Beware! Gory Image
This amazing invention looks useful, isn’t it?

Surgeon stoped at airport with his bloody bag

A christchurch surgeon in a post-op rush has sparked a bloody bag at Queenstown Airport. Local medical minister of health Dr. Derek Bell intends referring the incident to the New Zeland Medical Council – he says it was reported to him “there was a blood stain on the bag that was increasing in size”.
Peter Walker, [...]

Hands transplantation

A 47 years old woman had both hands amputated 28 years ago. Now she is the first patient in Spain to receive a transplant of both forearms and hands.
This operation was done in La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain by the team of hand surgery of the Pedro Cavadas’ Foundation.
This is the 7th similar surgical [...]

Pasteur Institute in Latinamerica opens its gates

The prestigious Pasteur Institute opeded its gates the past Friday in Montevideo, Uruguay.
“The Institute will be the state-of-the-art and the best of science investigation with the newest methods, methods which explore and try to explain the miracle of life”, said Tabaré Vázquez the president wich is an oncologist.