Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.

Electronics - Robotics

May 29, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

New research shows that a surgical procedure using a cutting-edge super glue pioneered a year ago by Calgary researchers can improve the recovery of heart patients recovering from open-chest surgery, Dr. Paul Fedak today ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Oct 24, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 2

Someday soon, thanks to advances in medicine, a surgeon will operate on a patient who is not in the same room, but thousands of miles away.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

May 27, 2011 4.2 / 5 (6) 7

(AP) -- Ronald Lee Herrick, who donated a kidney to his dying twin brother 56 years ago in what's recognized as the world's first successful organ transplant, has died of complications following heart surgery. ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Dec 29, 2010 4.8 / 5 (5) 0

(Phys.org) —Engineers combine layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors to create a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill. The skin-like device could one day provide doctors with a ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(AP) -- Courtney Montgomery's heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant.

Medicine & Health - Other

May 23, 2011 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

Doctors at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany successfully used transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation in elderly patients with degenerated bioprostheses in aortic and mitral position. This minimally invasive ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jun 15, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgical removal of the thyroid isn't usually considered as the first option in treating Graves' disease, but a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests that in experienced hands maybe it should ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Feb 16, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- The federal government is legally barring a Michigan company from selling life-sustaining devices used in heart surgery, following years of quality control problems at company facilities.

Medicine & Health - Medications

Mar 22, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

In the future you may hear the doctor say: "Give me your arm and I'll do some heart surgery."

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Apr 04, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 27, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1

Tributes poured in Sunday following the death of Neil Armstrong, the humble US astronaut whose "small step" on the moon captivated the world and came to embody the wonder of space exploration.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 26, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Detecting whether a patient will have acute kidney injury could become as simple as dipping a paper test strip printed with gold nanorods into a urine sample, a team of Washington University ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Nov 15, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Siemens Healthcare developed a new, smart visualization and guidance technology, which facilitates implantation of an aortic replacement valve by means of a catheter. The technology spares patients the trauma ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Dec 06, 2010 3 / 5 (2) 0

A percutaneous mitral valve clip designed to stop mitral valve regurgitation demonstrated clinical benefit as measured by the degree of mitral regurgitation, according to a study presented at the 22nd annual Transcatheter ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Sep 21, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0