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Plastic Surgeons

Arts, Culture & Media

Plastic surgeons describe their profession and its delicate relationship to art.

newborn baby

Momentum builds to end surgery on intersex newborns

Culture
Drs. Abdulkhalek (center) and Farida (right) look on during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on the conflict in Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington.

These two Syrian doctors survived the siege of Aleppo — and helped many others survive, too

Conflict
Blessing, a young girl from South Sudan, recovers from surgery to treat hydrocephalus. Fluid builds up in the brain causing the head to swell.

An American surgeon pioneers surgery for kids in Uganda that helps kids in the US

Medicine
Nilza Munambo listens to a fetal heartbeat. She's in charge of the maternity ward at Chokwe District Hospital and regularly performs cesarean sections even though she's not a doctor.

Mozambique’s life-saving surgeons aren’t doctors at all

Medicine
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Darek Fidyka

For the first time ever, a surgery regrows spinal cord nerves — and lets this man walk again

Medicine

Repairing spinal cord injuries and restoring movement to a paralyzed person has been the subject of intense research for decades — but success has always seemed out of reach. Now a new type of surgery has allowed a Polish man to walk again after having been paralyzed.

Doctors David Ghozland and Marc Winter perform a single-site robotic-assisted hysterectomy.

Doctors are ready to test temporary ‘suspended animation’ to save people with severe injuries

Health & Medicine

It may seem ghoulish — pumping people full of cold saltwater to chill them down when they receive severe injuries — but the technique has had stunning success in animal trials and is now moving into its first human tests. The aim is to buy time to treat wounds.

Doctors David Ghozland and Marc Winter perform a single-site robotic-assisted hysterectomy.

Doctors are ready to test temporary ‘suspended animation’ to save people with severe injuries

Health & Medicine

It may seem ghoulish — pumping people full of cold saltwater to chill them down when they receive severe injuries — but the technique has had stunning success in animal trials and is now moving into its first human tests. The aim is to buy time to treat wounds.

Surgeons

Pre-surgery routines might be doing more harm than good for patients

Health & Medicine

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say a new pre-surgical regimen for abdominal surgery improves patient care and helps them recover faster. But not everyone is on board.

Surgeons

Pre-surgery routines might be doing more harm than good for patients

Health & Medicine

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say a new pre-surgical regimen for abdominal surgery improves patient care and helps them recover faster. But not everyone is on board.

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