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A robot gives birth
Medical students practice parturition treatment with a baby-delivery robot at an obstetrician class of Kyung Hee university medical center in Seoul December 27, 2006.
The medical center imported the robot to give more chances of practical delivery treatment for students as South Korea’s birth rates are constantly falling, a professor of the class said.
(By Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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.
An oldman is declared dead by his odor
Because of the stinky scent of his house and his absence in the streets nine days ago, neighbors of a mexican state called Aguascalientes, paramedics declared Jose Luis González dead.
When paramedics opened the house were repelled by the bad odor and a dog, so they could only see the man underneath a table, and [...]
Blog’s First Anniversary
Well, yesterday was this blog’s first anniversary and what a greater way to celebrate than to be “slashdotted.”
Not exactly slashdotted, but dugg, wired, kevinned, NHSed, Emergiblogged and many more. For all the people who kindly linked to my site, thank you a lot.
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With that ammount of traffic, my website crashed for an [...]
Doctor’s Day
Today is the Doctor’s Day in Mexico. More facts in this earlier post.
Congratulations to all my colleagues.
“Your natural strenghts, those inside of you, will cure their diseases”
Hippocrates
Don’t believe in what you see
Kittiwat Unarrom, a 28-years-old Thai student, bakes human being parts. Just a little detail, this parts are bread sculptures.
He said:
Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking [...]
Limb to crotch (updated)
Israel Sarrío arrived at the Rehabilitation Center of Levante from Hospital Peset in Valencia (Spain) on January 31st of 2004 with an amputation of the left arm 2 inches above the elbow.
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At 14:00hrs, the microsurgery implant began. The first maneuver consisted in lavage and sterilization of the amputated arm and [...]
New surgical retractor - patented
A new surgical retractor that is useful in three different kinds of surgeries, will be used in 171 countries and it was developed by Angel Raul Soriano Sanchez (Mexican Ob/Gyn from the National Institute for Social Security - IMSS), was international patented.
This new surgical retractor for abdominal or vaginal surgery and can be used in [...]
Read to Believe: Woman was treated for Breast Cancer that she never had
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Lynne Yurosko, a 56 years old woman, went to lumpectomy and 25 cycles of radiotherapy and she never had breast cancer.
Yurosko’s biopsy samples were switched with another woman by a terrible made by Quest Diagnostics in Garden City.
Imagine the situation of the other woman.
Quest Diagnostics; the Nassau Radiologic Group, a medical and testing center with [...]
First surgery with no gravity
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A french surgical team leaded by Dominique Martin has performed the first surgery in a zero-gravity flight. The patient a 46 years old male, was a volunteer and he just needed local anesthesia in the forearm.
The procedure was successful, and the chief surgeon said: [...]
National Survey for Health and Nutrition in Mexico (2006)
The 2006 National Survey for Health and Nutrition in Mexico (Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2006, a.k.a. ENSANUT) revealed that among mexican adults, 70 percent have obesity or overweight.
There were not states in the Mexican Republic with smaller prevalence to 55 percent.
Campeche, Chihuahua, Durango, México City, Estado de México, Quintana Roo, Sonora, South Baja [...]
Survival Story (update)
Three fisheremen survive nine months at sea.
Salvador Ordoñez Vázquez, Jesús Vidaña López and Lucio Rendón Becerra, are the fishermen who drifted 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) across the Pacific Ocean in an open boat for nine months are the toast of Mexico.
They survived rawing fish, seabirds and rain water.
From San Blas, Nayarit (Mexico), to Marshall Islands, [...]
First Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
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The first laparoscopic liver surgery in a child, was performed in Mexico.
Mark Thomas, a pediatric surgeon performed the world’s first laparoscopic liver surgery in a pediatric patient. The procedure was on May 24 at the National Medical Center, La Raza in Mexico City. The patient is 2 years old and has liver cancer, on the [...]
