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Science Buzz Whether or not you can successfully remove these horrifying images from your eye holes is as yet undetermined. But thankfully, again, the 10-hour operation was a success. Nguyen Duy Hai of Vietnam, who has had the tumor since he was 6-years-old, raised the nearly $12,000 for the operation through charitable donations.
Blue, a 12-week-old Pit Bull puppy in Alabama started chewing on a flag pole and ended up swallowing a garden flag post. She had to have surgery to get it out, but Blue's expected to make a speedy recovery.
BRB, need more tissues. This little girl was born with a severely cleft lip and palate. 24 hours after having corrective surgery, she saw her new smile for the first time. (via fark.com)
Style Buzz You know, Elf Poseur is considered a negative quality. I guess this is what you do now that split tongues are passé.
Science Buzz From appendectomies to C-sections to snake bites—a DIY guide of self-surgeries that could save your life. Please don't try these at home. Just, you know, if you're stranded on top of a mountain with no humans for miles but happen to have a scalpel, pliers, cotton pads, and a good amount of alcohol.
Culture Buzz Sometimes a woman's ladyflower starts looking a bit wilted. But it's ok. There's plastic surgery to prune that vulva and make it look like a spring blossom. (via)
Culture Buzz A bulldog split open Martha Stewart's lip, a story which we'll let you absorb for a second, and Martha decided it was a great idea to meticulously document the process of sewing up the seeping gash in her face. Martha being Martha, even though she's undergoing a medical procedure, provides condescending commentary on the emergency room's wallpaper.
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A gene therapy in the form of a thick gel is about to revolutionize wound treatment. The gel is called Nexagon, and when you apply it to a wound, it reprograms the cells to heal more quickly and efficiently.
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“Why did they cut you?” The shocking question came from a respected spine surgeon tracked down by Keith Swenson, who was still in severe pain after an earlier back operation.
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Augmented Reality has been used in the medical field for nearly ten years. For a long time, AR lived on high-tech levels, and producing products that leveraged it required advanced computing technology only available to large corporations. Medical manufacturers have also dipped into AR, but thanks to funding from the Recovery Act, far further research and development for medical AR tools has been made possible.
A few days after the iPad was released in Japan, a group of doctors at a hospital run by Kobe University used the Apple tablet device as a display during actual surgery. (Via CrunchGear.)
In the battle of the Feline Lookalikes, this point goes to Viv. Better luck next time, Jocey.
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The tennis world has lost two of its brightest upcoming stars.
Someone managed to snap a picture of Michael Jackson's ear, which has been badly mangled over the years so that plastic surgeons could use the tissue and cartilage to rebuild his nose. On the left is the ear as it is today, on the right is his ear before it was chopped up for the plastic surgery on his nose. As you can see, there isn't much left of it anymore.
Science Buzz Connie Culp, a woman who nearly died after being shot in the face with a shotgun five years ago, showed off her new face today. It was transplanted from a dead woman, and is the country's first successful face transplant. So, what's she have to say? “Here I am, five years later…I got me my nose.”
Just because it's Saturday night doesn't mean you have something better to do than watch Dr. Gunther von Hagens dissect a man and woman's reproduction system. So very NSFW, unless of course you work with Dr. Gunter von Hagens. Update: Hagens, No! “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”
Created by artist and DIY-er Becky Stern, this cozy stuffed femur is based off of pictures from her recent knee surgery. Nothing like cuddling with your own anatomically accurate femur.
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Some surgeons doing an advanced robotic surgery decided to Tweet it in real time so other doctors and medical students could follow along and learn. Who doesn't want this showing up in their Twitter feed? “There is bleeding from the base of the tumor, but it is being adequately controlled.”
At 2.5 pounds and 17 centimeters wide, this Hungarian man's was ::sigh:: surgically removed. Still, if you have a penis, this image might make you faint.
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