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If it works, Guardants new approach to detecting cancer may save your life
Posted in Medicine on 16th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
A startup has developed new technology that it claims can open a new front in the war on cancer.
3D-printed hip implant lets teenager walk again
Posted in Medicine on 10th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
The 3D-printed implant that has given a once wheelchair-consigned teenager the ability to walk on her own.
After 120 Years, Doctors Develop New Brain Surgery Technique
Posted in Medicine on 5th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
A team of surgeons recently came up with a safer, better method of replacing skull fragments after brain surgery.
New sponges stop bleeding wounds in 15 seconds flat
Posted in Medicine on 5th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
A syringe filled with tiny sponges that can not only stop bleeding, but do it quickly and more effectively than any other modern method.
Experimental Surgery Aims to Revive a Paralyzed Limb
Posted in Medicine on 15th Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller
A paralyzed man will receive experimental surgery connecting a brain chip to systems that activate muscles in his arm.