10-Pound Hairball Pulled From Girl's Stomach

"An 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, was hospitalized with pain in her stomach, and surgeons were forced to operate. What they found was a foot-long hairball. The mass of hair -- known as a trichobozear - -is a...

Israeli world first: Surgeons weld wounds shut with surgical laser

This is a first in the world. An opportunity to seal incisions using a new method that discourages infection by its application and procedure."Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing,...

German Man Receives World's First Double Arm Transplant

A German man received the world's first complete double arm transplant and is adjusting well to his new arms, although it could take as long as two years before he gains functionality in his hands.  The nerves are predicted to grow down the arm at a daily rate of 1mm,...

Plastic Surgeons See Drooping Business

"Plastic Surgeons See Drooping BusinessEconomy Cuts Face Lifts, Other Procedures""CHICAGO -- The economy isn't the only thing that's sagging -- so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery...

Cosmetic cowboys could cost you your life, women warned

Vanity always vanity...Accept yourself for the unique expression of infinite consciousness that you are and you don't need vanity and expensive and dangerous procedures to feel wonderful about yourself."Women's lives are being put at risk by cowboy cosmetic surgery clinics...

Child's bitten-off fingertip reattached

Reported in Southern California news, a very lucky little boy, had his finger successfully reattached after it had bitten off by a pit bull. Another medical marvel thanks to new micro-surgery techniques. "PASADENA...

Surgeons prepare for world’s first full-face transplant

"Three years after the world’s first partial face transplant, significant progress has been made with two further successful operations. A 30-year-old man who had part of his face torn off by a bear and another with a disfiguring tumour have had their quality of life...

Lakshmi 'goddess girl' learns to walk

"A three-year old Indian girl worshipped as a goddess after she was born with four arms and four legs has taken her first steps in a baby-walker eight months after surgeons separated her from a conjoined headless...

Australian surgeons save unborn baby's leg

Surgeons in Australia were able to save an unborn baby's leg by performing telescopic surgeryhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080609/health/health_australia_baby_legs

Tumour turns out to be 25-year-old towel

" DOCTORS in Japan who carried out surgery on a man to remove a tumour had good news and bad news for him.The good news was he did not have cancer. The bad news: The growth that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel. The patient had been carrying...

Surgeons cut 16 washers from penis

I can not even begin to imagine how they got there."A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital with fire brigade equipment early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis. Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward...

Once-Disfigured Girl Attends Prom After 18 Surgeries

" Cody Hall was born with a hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark that distorted the shape of her face and grew larger as she got older. When she was 1-year-old, her doctors in England told her parents that nothing...

Surgeons Busted for Rectal Spray-Can Removal Video

Surgeons and medical staff in Cebu, Phillipines are in the hot-seat after a video of them removing a spran can from a patient's rectum was circulated on the Internet. Beyond the generally unprofessional conduct...

Bayer Trasylol Heart Surgery Clotting Drugs Sales Suspended Worldwide

"MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Bayer AG suspended worldwide sales of Trasylol, a clotting drug using during heart surgery to prevent bleeding, on Monday following a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove the drug from the American market for safety...

On-Site Amputation May Free Trapped Driver

 Update: Trapped Driver Freed From Under TruckThe female driver of a garbage truck was extricated after about an hour underneath the cab of the truck after it flipped over while making a turn in a residential...

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