Browsing all posts in May, 2007.

A woman survived internal decapitation

On January 25th, a car crash took place in Nebraska and Shannon Malloy (a previously healthy 30 year old woman) was seriously injuried. Her skull became separated from her cervical spine, this is what is called internal decapitation.
“I remember the impact and then I had no control over my head… I wasn’t focused so much [...]

Digital manipulation

Artist Koen Hauser is a specialist in digital picture manipulation. This collection is called Modische Atlas der Anatomie.

Lovely work I said.
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NeuroArm

Neurosurgery is about to change with the arrival of Neuro Arm, a new robot system developed by specialists of The Calgary University.

This device was designed by Garnette Sutherland, a neurosurgeon who worked the last 6 years to make the device that frees the surgeons of the possible faults caused by the human hand.
“Many of our [...]

Twin-to-Twin transfusion

Byron and Lincoln Ryman were born within a minute of each other, first Byron (3lb 6oz) was precisely three times bigger than his brother.
Eleven weeks premature, both boys were given a little chance of survival – particularly Lincoln, weighing only 1lb 2oz at birth.
But yesterday this twins, now they are five weeks old, are doing [...]