Combat, cancer and accidents - all can cause devastating nerve injuries. Sometimes, the body heals on its own. ""Your peripheral nerves, the ones in the arms and the face, have an inherent ability to regenerate, but only under ideal...

Sports fans have come to expect some of the extras they see on their TV screen, such as the yellow lines that appear on a football field to highlight where the ball needs to go for a first down. Similarly, NASCAR fans can find their...

This program explores the mysterious world of Wisconsin's only living fossil, the lake sturgeon. This prehistoric throwback that once faced possible extinction is a conservation success story with the restored populations in Lake...

Pirate ships were dirty - there's no way around it. The life of a pirate was fraught with danger and disease, but the pirates themselves did find ways to clean themselves and their surroundings - at times.

In this episode we are going to talk about amputations in the Napoleonic Wars

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...

MOT 1948: HOSPITAL TESTING: X-Ray conference room sign over door. Surgeon, resident surgeon & family physician examining X-Rays on lightbox. X-ray showing gallbladder & stones. Doctors talking together, conference.

MOT 1948: HOSPITAL OPERATION: Male anesthetist w/ mask on female patient, respiration bag, wall clock 8:48, nurse passing swab, surgical instruments to doctor, team working w/ clamps, CU Gas valves & levels, Clock 9:12, team lifting...

A combination of virtual reality and haptic feedback aims to improve medical training.

An introduction to Ambroise Pare, his early career and his experience of treating wounds with boiling oil.

This program explores the mysterious world of Wisconsin's only living fossil, the lake sturgeon. This prehistoric throwback that once faced possible extinction is a conservation success story with the restored populations in Lake...

In this video, we explore the features and interventions for dry and wet gangrene.

NEW: Your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation.




This week:
1. Finding cancer through the eye
of a...

MOT 1948: HOSPITAL OPERATION: Wall clock 8:05. Patient into operating room, team of surgeon, technicians, nurses. Surgical light. Female patient w/ oxygen mask being held on face. Male anesthetist nods to surgeon. Operation in progress,...

NSF-funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis, have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the Morpho butterfly to more accurately find lurking cancer. ...

MOT 1937: OPERATION: Doctors Surgeons in masks gowns operating being handed tools by nurses. Woman taking file from cabinet. CU Medical chart 'complete cure'. Young adult males walking in hospital hallway elder woman. Sign 'To the Street'

This week on the Healthcare Triage Podcast, we're sitting down with Dr. Jonathan Fridell, organ transplant surgeon. He and Aaron talk all about how exactly organs get moved from one person to another, and I can tell you, it is FASCINATING.

The Old West wasn't all cowboys, saloons, and shootouts. Pioneers living on the American frontier also relied on doctors for all kinds of medical treatments. Epidemics, accidents, and STDs kept doctors busy. But unfortunately for...

Corpsman sterilizing tools / MS 'Operation Room' sign outside tent / GRAPHIC VS MCU's Of Navy doctor, surgeon, hands operating on open wound (bloody) of injured Marine, soldier, placing mat over wound / MS 'Operation Room' sign outside...

Anwar Shaikh Teaser

At the time of the Civil War, battlefield medicine was still in its infancy. This led to many injuries becoming severely infected and many of the injured receiving hasty, dangerous surgeries. In fact, Civil War battlefield surgery was a...

MOT 1944: CHINESE MEDICAL EDUCATION: WS Women walking up road toward university. INT Operating Room theater w/ patient being prepped for surgery. Future nurses, doctors, surgeons watching procedure below.

A man from the U.S. has become the first person to get a heart transplant from a pig, according to the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

"Hyperelastic Bone" can be matched to patients or used off-the-shelf and could be cheaper, better and less painful than conventional bone tissue



Description: The transplanting of bone tissue, known as bone...