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One of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations was the Inca empire, stretching through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina. The Inca civilization was outstanding because of its colossal architecture, its cities with paved and regular st... |
14 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Ahh, the joys and perils of being a doctor, or a surgeon. You have to think quickly, watch the timer, use your instruments with great care, look after the patient, pay attention to your staff's behavior and sometimes even fight a bit against bioterrorism. That's the game treatment that made Trauma Center a ... |
1 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Female genitalia are polyvalent. It seems that the vagina is on the way to turn into the natural female orifice for getting rid of internal organs. After the removal of appendixes, now a team of doctors at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona have successfully removed a cancerous kidney via the vagina of a 66 year-old wo... |
1 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Two weeks of hospitalization and months of recovery before going to gym because of an appendix removal surgery? All these may be gone for women. For the first time in U.S., on March 26, 2008, a team at UC San Diego Medical Center removed an inflamed appendix through a patient's vagina.The procedure lasted just 5... |
29 March 2008
06:57 GMT |
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This is really remarkable: a woman had all her abdominal organs removed, for the extirpation of a tumor. Brooke Zepp, 63, from South Florida, was found, in May 2007, to have leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer type, located deep inside her abdomen. The tumor had wrapped itself around woman's aorta and other arteries d... |
27 March 2008
14:21 GMT |
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If there's one thing in this world that British glamor girl Jordan likes to do, it's... no, not that other thing, people -I mean the thing she does all the time. OK, not penis talk, she hasn't done that in a while - but you're getting close. The right answer is "Jordan likes to talk". About anythi... |
28 February 2008
09:39 GMT |
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When this girl was born in a poor village in Bihar (northern India), the locals regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. That's why the girl was named Lakshmi. Lakshmi had attracted the attention of people eager to gain money from her deformity: a circus even tried to... |
26 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Why is it that a surgery that it should have turned you into Adriana Lima has as result a scarecrow face? And why don't many transplants work properly? A new EPFL research explains the mechanical factors that are essential in the differentiation and function of fibroblasts - connective tissue cells controlling w... |
21 December 2007
03:44 GMT |
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Face is what physically represents you. In the ID card, you have a picture of your face, not of your arm, a*s or belly. That's why it's hard to imagine the feeling of losing it. This is what happened two years ago to Isabelle Dinoire, a French woman, 38 by then, who had been disfigured by her dog. She was t... |
17 December 2007
03:20 GMT |
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Squid pen, remaining of the once well developed shell like the one of a snail, is usually a waste product of the squids, which most food processors discard. But a wound-healing gel based on squid pen and developed by a team at the Otago University was brought into the attention of international pharmaceutical compan... |
30 November 2007
05:28 GMT |
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The slightest error during a surgery can kill a patient or induce severe effects. But what if the surgeon would undo the error and try again? By now only in science fiction movies you have seen this happen, but in the future it could turn real. Practicing on your "digital double", a perfect virtual copy of you, a sur... |
27 November 2007
03:30 GMT |
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For some of us a dog is more important than a human. It is easier to interact with a dog. The animal cannot criticize or underappreciate you. But the more frequent tendency to own a pet has revealed that British vets signal there is an increasing need for a national blood bank for dogs.What's working for humans ... |
15 November 2007
06:45 GMT |
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About 300,000 people annually in US enter the hospitals because of the kidney stones (medically called renal lithiases). The pain is excruciating, like that felt by women when giving birth. Some believe this condition is something recent, linked to modern lifestyle and junk food. In reality, people have been tortured... |
8 November 2007
17:11 GMT |
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Breasts are the main sign of feminine beauty: nice, pert breasts make a woman extremely attractive. That's why there's no wonder why there is an industry of billions of dollars around breast caring products, and billions of dollars worldwide go to breast reconstruction or augmentation surgeries (with all th... |
6 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Any physician, dietician, or fitness instructor will tell you that two factors are necessary to look good after the age of 20: diet and exercising. But if you're a couch potato aged 40, and your life's centered around alcohol, smoking and white nights, there is one last chance: plastic surgery. Only in 2006... |
29 September 2007
04:05 GMT |
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Watch out! Women's sexual skills may be...dangerous. Eleven stitches were necessary to reattach a nearly severed penis. Malaysian doctors have managed to save an Indonesian man, after a 6 hours surgery. The patient got in this kind of trouble after his first wife got very irritated when he compared her sex skill... |
27 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Feeling that you're 'a woman trapped in a man's body' can make the person extremely unhappy. But surgery is regarded in these cases with a great deal of reserve by the medical community, as long term studies about the results on the life of the patients are inexistent. Amid the controversy, a new ... |
26 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Ten years ago, Demi Moore was once one of the top Tinseltown actresses - charging something like 12 million dollars per movie. Now she is 44 and except from seeing her emerge from the ocean in skimpy bikini while playing the evil mastermind in Charlie's Angels we haven't heard much of Demi - except for the ... |
13 September 2007
10:21 GMT |
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You would not want to play baseball against him. His hand covers half of the stadium...But Liu Hua, the 24-year-old man from Jiangsu (eastern China) with the largest hand in the world, does not pursue a baseball career. Liu suffers from macrodactylya ("large fingers"), a congenital defect in which toes or fingers ar... |
11 September 2007
15:51 GMT |
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The brain may be an elastic organ, but once the skull is opened, it's not longer floating in the protective bath of cerebrospinal fluid, and gravity forces and atmospheric pressures change its shape, but also the location of the tumor(s) to be removed. The preoperative MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is no lon... |
10 September 2007
07:03 GMT |
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A surgery can be performed very well, but one of the most dangerous side effects are infections. Only in US, each year 2 million people get infected while in the hospital and over 90,000 die. This number is much higher in developing countries, with less technology and less hygienic conditions. Penicillin could be emp... |
10 September 2007
03:32 GMT |
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Porn movies and erotic literature have forced modern women to look for the 'peach look' for their genitalia and a vagina exploding in orgasms at the slightest touch. And many obstetrician-gynecologists have no problem in performing what they want, calling it "vaginal rejuvenation," "designer vaginoplasty," ... |
3 September 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Resorting to surgery every time the body fails in living up to the fashion requirements is not something new. Well, a man's thumbs seemed to be unable to keep up with the touchscreen trend. So he had them surgically modified to make a perfect match for his iPhone.It looks like large, bulky thumbs are not most su... |
10 August 2007
06:56 GMT |
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To 'sculpture' your own body usually means going to gym and model your muscles. But for others the meaning may go beyond your imagination. Ryan and Dave from Phoenix, Arizona, are surely the most unique twins in the world. They do not only share the same DNA, but their bodies also. Literally. After getting ... |
7 August 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Some men do not feel men enough. Others love men. And some others feel like a woman. And there are women that feel like a man, too. Many of those who have been through sex change operations claim it was the only solution to a stressful condition. But others disagree. "I should never have had sex change surgery," Clau... |
4 August 2007
04:16 GMT |
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A case of Guinness Book of the World Records or a penal case? Under the attentive surveillance of his parents, the 15-year-old son of two doctors from southern India performed a filmed Cesarean section. This was made on the run to gain the title of world's youngest surgeon.Instead of that, the boy's father ... |
25 June 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Haptics is the study of touching behavior. Being an extremely important sense for humans, by providing valuable information about surfaces and textures, this seems to be the most recent target for electronics producers around the world.Haptic technology refers to technology which interfaces the user via the sense of... |
22 June 2007
04:58 GMT |
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It's a gruesome percentage, not only for the males. It is a no-win situation that no man should have to find himself in. Definitely a grim future for patients suffering from prostate cancer. They go the hospital to have the prostate cancer removed, then they come home to hang their "tools" in the closet. It�... |
5 May 2007
07:50 GMT |
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A caterpillar is the larval form of some insects, like butterflies and moths. They eat mostly plants and sometimes even other insects. They have many legs (three pairs of true legs on the three thoracic segments, up to four pairs of prolegs on the middle segments of the abdomen and often a single pair of prolegs on ... |
20 April 2007
09:34 GMT |
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Robots have a variety of industrial applications, where work is monotonous or potentially harmful to humans, or when human sense organs must be artificially enhanced. In medicine, robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minim... |
18 April 2007
09:53 GMT |
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You surely love your body. And you do not want to display post-surgery scars when you're at the beach. This could be done as a team of urologists and surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center and engineers at UT Arlington Automation and Robotics Research Institute are on the way to developing a breakthrough sys... |
26 March 2007
03:15 GMT |
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