Surgery

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have developed a non-invasive method of lowering the amount of “hunger hormone" ghrelin in pigs in turn making them stop gaining weight.

More than 60 patients with vision complications in India, late last month, underwent Cataract surgery to have good eyesight, but the surgery proved fatal for some patients’ vision. The tragic incident occurred at the private Joseph Institute of Ophthalmology in Tiruchi, India.

Having had half her brain removed in surgery in June, six year old Jessie Hall, returned home on Thursday after the complicated surgery, in good health.

Having lost both his arms in an accident almost six years back, the 54 year old man from Germany became the first man ever to have undergone the rare double limb transplant operation on Friday, finally, to be fitted with two new limbs, in a unique first of its kind surgery in the world.

Good news for infertile men! A new study found that infertility could be treated with a minimally invasive procedure called retrograde venous embolization, which will perk up the chances of sired pregnancies.

Dr Michael DeBakey, the renowned cardiovascular surgeon who was recognized internationally for his accomplishments in the field of medicine, has died Friday night at Houston's Methodist Hospital. He was 99.

Breast surgery, enhancement or reduction, where on one hand is meant for sweet satisfaction of the self, has often led to a sour sense of dissatisfaction when calculations of the correct size for the desired look, go wrong. But not anymore. The new 3-d imaging technology will now help women see in advance the size that suits them best.

The results of a new study may prove to be the best news for people suffering from obesity and type 2 diabetesdefine. According to the study, weight loss surgery may help not just curb obesity, but also put into remission type 2 diabetes.

“Mirror mirror on the wall, the knife has made men better than all”, this saying could very well suit the present day scenario with large number of men choosing to go under the knife to look better and their numbers increasing by the day, according to the new report released by the American Society of Plastic Surgery.

Beauty and the perception of it has always changed with passing time, however, what till now had not changed, was the attitude of women about breast size. But, that too seems to have a modification of thought now, at least in the women of great Britain, as breast reduction features in the 5 most popular cosmetic procedures’ list of the nation.