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SPOTLIGHT GALLERY
Healing Joints with Stem Cells: Future of Surgical Cartilage Repair
From every action, to walking to school, waving to a friend, or even to the movement in your fingers while writing, that fluid movement...
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Sep 15, 20253 min read
Hemophilia: An Introduction, Symptoms, and Treatment Options
Have you ever met someone who would get injured or bruised easily and would bleed out a lot? Or perhaps you have experienced this...
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Sep 15, 20253 min read
Bringing Light to Neurosurgical Tumors - Fluorescence Guided Surgery
Fluorescence guided surgery (FGS) is an intraoperative technology aimed at aiding surgeons in performing more complete and safer...
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Sep 10, 20252 min read
Risks of Artifical Intelligence in Surgery
As technology advances, the usage of robots and artificial intelligence in surgery has risen exponentially. These robotic surgeries allow...
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Sep 10, 20252 min read
Arthroscopy Surgery
Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive surgery that treats joint issues. An arthroscope is a long tube that transmits light and video. ...
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Sep 10, 20252 min read
The Role of Surgical Pathology in Trauma-Related Deaths
Regardless of age or socioeconomic status, trauma continues to be one of the world's leading causes of death. Trauma, whether from falls,...
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Sep 10, 20254 min read
The Role of Nanotechnology in Surgery
As technology advances to keep up with the modern world, there are vast surgical improvements happening as well. One example is...
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Sep 10, 20253 min read
Xenotransplantation: What Makes It Special and Rare?
It would seem extraordinary and strange to hear that humans have the capability to receive transplants from nonhuman tissues, organs, and...
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Aug 30, 20253 min read
The Start of Full-Body Skin Transplants
The skin is the largest organ in the body. Many people burn their skin with a hot stove or a curling iron, but what about a car accident...
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Aug 28, 20252 min read
Michael DeBakey: Revolutionizing Cardiovascular Surgery
Michael DeBakey, born in Louisiana in 1908, successfully revolutionized the world of medicine with his extraordinary achievements, such...
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Aug 27, 20252 min read
Surgical Ventricular Restoration
When the heart is damaged by a severe heart attack, the main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, can become scarred, weakened, and...
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Aug 26, 20252 min read
The Origins of Rhinoplasty: The Evolution of Reconstructive Surgery into the Modern Aesthetic
A rhinoplasty, commonly known as a nose surgery, is one of the oldest surgical procedures recorded in history. It's mostly known for...
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Aug 26, 20252 min read
First Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery for Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s Disease is caused by the loss of dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra , a midbrain region that helps regulate...
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Aug 26, 20252 min read
A Moment in History: The First Heart Transplant
On December 13, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard made a new reality come true. At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, the...
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Aug 26, 20252 min read
Trephination: A Look at Early Skull Surgery
Trephination, also known as trepanation, is one of the oldest surgical procedures in human history. It involves creating a hole in the...
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Aug 26, 20252 min read
Dr. Brian J. Cole
Dr. Brian J. Cole is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, cartilage restoration, and minimally invasive surgery. He...
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Aug 23, 20252 min read
The World's First Partial Face Transplant
In November 2005, Isabelle Dinoire had the world's first face transplant in France, undergoing a 15 hour operation. Surgeons replaced her...
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Aug 20, 20252 min read
Separation of Craniopagus (head-joined) Conjoined Twins
Craniopagus twins are a very rare type of conjoined twins who are joined at the head when born. This condition happens in about 0.6 out...
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Aug 20, 20252 min read
Sofia Ionescu, World’s First Female Neurosurgeon
Opposing her dead father’s wishes of her becoming a homemaker, Sofia Ionescu became the world’s first female neurosurgeon, dedicating...
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Aug 20, 20253 min read
Dr. John Heysham Gibbon: Inventor of the Heart Lung Machine
John Heysham Gibbon was one of the most influential surgeons of the 1900s. He was most known for his two major accomplishments: the first...
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Aug 20, 20252 min read
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