If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are. Surgeon and entrepreneur Nadine Hachach-Haram is developing a new system that helps surgeons operate together and train...

Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating --...

In 1948, Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer Moner was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itself, without relying on external aids. The surgery he eventually devised was called...

Can keeping calm before a surgery reduce negative outcomes? More than one study says "Yes."

Every year, tens of thousands of people have brain surgery without a single incision: there's no scalpel, no operating table, and the patient loses no blood. Instead, this procedure uses a machine that emits invisible beams of light at a...

Critical care doctor Peter Weinstock shows how surgical teams are using a blend of Hollywood special effects and 3D printing to create amazingly lifelike reproductions of real patients -- so they can practice risky surgeries ahead of...

Surgeons are required every day to puncture human skin before procedures — with the risk of damaging what's on the other side. In a fascinating talk, find out how mechanical engineer Nikolai Begg is using physics to update an important...

When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become something that we actually started doing? While it’s a hard question to answer, it’s possible that our...

Bailey Vincent has been on the brink of major surgery many times, but this moment is like nothing she has ever dealt with before. In this episode of “Barely Breathing Ballerina”, Bailey faces an unprecedented...

People are still getting arthroscopic knee surgery? Do they not watch Healthcare Triage? As we've pointed out arthroscopic knee surgery is probably ineffective. But lots of people are still getting the surgery, in spite of the evidence.

Despite a surgeon’s best efforts, residual cancer cells often remain after a tumor is removed. Now, a technology from NSF-funded small business NovaScan detects cancer cells in living tissue in real-time. The cancer-scanning device...

A SELF-proclaimed ‘human doll’ has had eyelid surgery to make her appear more Caucasian - like her style icon Barbie. Ophelia Vanity, from Los Angeles, California, is half-Chinese by heritage - but spent $4,000 on a blepharoplasty to...

In this video, we discuss the complications of abdominal surgeries and the consequences they can have on patients. We explore the formation of abdominal fistulas, abnormal connections between two epithelial surfaces, and the various...

Lesson on Medical Terminology, The Basics, Lesson 1.3: Surgery and Related Terms. In this lesson, we discuss a variety of prefixes and suffixes that denote surgical processes, surgical instruments and diagnostic and evaluative...

Laser eye surgery is a medical procedure that involves the use of a laser to reshape the surface of the eye. The first laser eye surgery or laser sculpting was performed more than 20 years ago. Patients have this laser eye surgery to...

Howcast - Learn the pros and cons of lap band surgery versus gastric sleeve surgery in this Howcast video about bariatric surgery to treat obesity.

Ambani Hospital in Mumbai has launched a robotic surgical system, known as the Da Vinci system, performing 11 successful surgeries so far. The Da Vinci system is being used to perform complicated surgeries. The robot's precision...

This video explores the advancements in computer-assisted surgery (CAS) and the impact it has on improving surgical procedures. It highlights how CAS technology allows medical teams to create virtual models of the operable area, enabling...

This video showcases the use of robotic surgery and augmented reality in cancer treatment. The video also discusses the future advancements in robotic surgery, including smaller devices and potentially even autonomous movement.

A British eye surgeon hopes to perform the country's first artificial cornea transplant and initiate a UK trial of the procedure by early next year. Millions worldwide could benefit from the ground-breaking eye surgery procedure that's...

Vivien Thomas was born on August 29, 1910, in New Iberia, Louisiana. He was the son of a carpenter and grandson of an enslaved man. He was a skilled carpenter who saved for seven years to pay for his education but lost it all...

Meet Dr. Muchtiar Khan, a leading heart surgeon in the Netherlands who uses revolutionary magnetic catheter technology to perform heart surgery without getting his hands dirty. With precise control and less risk of perforating the heart,...

Childhood obesity is a rapidly growing problem in the United States, and one of our best tools for treating obesity in adults is bariatric surgery. So should this procedure become common in kids as well?

This video provides an overview of how excimer lasers are used in eye surgery to correct refractive errors such as myopia and hyperopia. It explains the process of resurfacing the eye to improve focusing ability and vision. The video...