Are Fecal Transplants Real Medicine? Fecal Bacteriotherapy (FB) Explained
Tuesday January 31, 2012
It isn't a common procedure, but it is real medicine, and for those who really need it Fecal Bacteriotherapy (FB) is a godsend. Known by a variety of names including ... Read More
Dentist Pleads Guilty After Using Paper Clips For Oral Surgery
Tuesday January 24, 2012
Former Dentist Michael Clair has pleaded guilty to a wide variety of charges, including fraud, after substituting paper clips for stainless steel posts in at least two different dental surgeries.
For ... Read More
How To Cough After Surgery To Prevent Pain and Pneumonia
Monday January 23, 2012
It sounds kind of odd, doesn't it? Of course you know how to cough, you've been doing it your entire life.
When you were small you were taught to cover your ... Read More
First Face Transplant In Turkey Along With First 3 Limb Surgery
Sunday January 22, 2012
Surgeons in Ankara, Turkey performed that country's first face transplant today on a 19-year-old who was burned as an infant. Surgeons are also performing the worlds first triple limb transplant, ... Read More
Surgery For Man With 3 Inch Nail In His Head
Saturday January 21, 2012
Dante Autullo is a lucky man. Anyone who can go to the emergency room (and be shown an xray of their own head with a nail embedded) and understand what ... Read More
Bath Salts Lead To Radical Surgery and Flesh Eating Bacteria
Saturday January 21, 2012
Bath salts, the newest cheap designer drug that is killing people nationwide, is also leading to necrotizing fasciitis, better known as flesh eating bacteria.
Surgeons recently released a study that disclosed ... Read More
Prospective Olympian and X-Games Skier Dies, Becomes Organ Donor
Saturday January 21, 2012
Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier extraordinaire, has died of injuries suffered during a training run in Park City, Utah.
Burke was only 29, but she was a world class skier and ... Read More
Bruce Jenner of Kardashian Clan Has New Surgery Scar
Tuesday January 17, 2012
Bruce Jenner, once known as the gold medalist for the Decathalon in the 1976 Olympic games, is now more famous for his role as stepfather to the Kardashians and his ... Read More
Transplant Team Drops Heart Before Transplant Surgery
Friday January 13, 2012
Yes, it's true, a donated heart was dropped before it was transplanted into a patient in Mexico.
See video of the heart dropping incident
As a transplant professional I feel the need ... Read More
Baby Born With Organs Outside His Body Saved With Surgery
Friday January 13, 2012
It's a horrifying thing to contemplate: your newborn baby has a hernia-type condition, called an omphalocele, that is so bad that his internal organs are lying just underneath the skin ... Read More
Adele To Return To Singing After Healing From Surgery
Friday January 13, 2012
Grammy-nominated singer Adele will break her post-surgery silence on February 21st.
The singer is planning to make her first singing appearance after a procedure to remove a vocal cord polyp on ... Read More
John Edwards' Trial Moved For Surgery
Friday January 13, 2012
John Edwards' trial is being postponed so that he can have surgery for an undisclosed cardiac ailment.
Judge Catherine Eagles announced that the trial for charges of campaign corruption will be ... Read More
Man Has Enormous 198 Pound Tumor Removed With Surgery
Saturday January 7, 2012
Nguyen Duy Hai, a Vietnamese man, had an amazing surgery this week to remove a nearly 200 pound tumor from his leg.
See the tumor before surgery
The procedure was performed in ... Read More
Keith Richards Undergoes Surgery
Saturday January 7, 2012
Keith Richards, legendary guitarist for the Rolling Stones, had surgery this week.
The rock legend had laser eye surgery to treat his vision. Richards reportedly had experienced diminishing vision over the ... Read More
Nick Cannon Has Kidney Surgery After Acute Renal Failure
Saturday January 7, 2012
Nick Cannon, best known as Mr. Mariah Carey, was hospitalized for acute renal failure this week.
What is kidney failure?
While news reports didn't indicate what what caused Cannon's kidney failure, or ... Read More
Chaz Bono Talks Gender Reassignment (Sex Change) Surgery
Saturday January 7, 2012
Chaz Bono is opening up about the surgeries that remain to complete his transition from a female to a male.
The Dancing With the Stars participant is probably best known as ... Read More