In an attempt to maintain a youthful appearance, people have done their fair share of time in the plastic surgeon's office. A little injection here or there they can often get away with, though they may still be ridiculed by their choice to do so, but time after time, they come out from under the kn...

Researchers at Newcastle University have been able to 3D-print a biocompatible corneal framework using a new gel formulations that “keeps the stem cells alive whilst producing a material which is stiff enough to hold its shape but soft enough to be squeezed out the nozzle of a 3D printer.” There is

InSightec® is the pioneer and global leader in MR guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) . InSightec developed ExAblate, a product which pioneers the use of MRgFUS, and provides a personalized non-invasive treatment that can replace invasive procedures and offer therapeutic alternatives to milli

“This was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis. There are not enough donor human hearts available to meet the long list of potential recipients,” said Bartley P. Griffith, MD, who transplanted the pig heart into patient David Bennett.

Out Australian actor/filmmaker Daniel Monks went being a quadriplegic lying in a hospital bed to competing for best actor in the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, his country’s version of the Academy Awards, in just a few short years. Monks, who became a quadriplegic as a resu

A Spanish cancer patient has received a 3D printed titanium sternum and rib cage designed and manufactured in Australia. Suffering from a chest wall sarcoma (a type of cancerous tumour that grows, in this instance, around the rib cage), the 54 year old man needed his sternum and a portion of his ri

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor on Friday and delivered a rip-roaring presentation against the “bigots” in North Carolina and their anti-LGBT bathroom bill HB 2. The speech was also historic and groundbreaking, according to the office of the U.S. House Communications Director, which

Dr Bob Wallace, Medical Director of the "Love the Golden Rule Clinic" in St Petersburg, Florida shares an intimate and very emotional story from his days as an Intern when he helped save the live of a prominent young man who had been shot in the heart in August, 1982. As we celebrate Hepatitis World...

In Loving Memory: Toronto doctor, underwater photographer and athlete Lucas Murnaghan dies at 45. Dr. Lucas Murnaghan, who captured striking underwater photos, practised orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children and co-owned Canadian surfing shop Surf the Greats, has died. In a Ted Talk