Surgeons at Rush University Medical Center are performing living-donor kidney transplants using a new high-definition robotic surgery system that offers improved precision, shorter recovery and smaller incisions for the donor patient.

Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have developed a handheld device that can detect subtle brain damage immediately after concussion. The sophisticated yet simple-to-operate device, the researchers say, may prove especially useful on the battlefield or the football field, enabling brain damage to be detected almost immediately after mild head injuries.

University of Cincinnati (UC) neurovascular researchers have identified a gene that when suppressed or completely absent may predispose a person to brain aneurysms.

Todd Abruzzo, MD, and his colleagues demonstrated that 'knocking out' a gene known as endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS-3) in an animal model led to intracranial aneurysm formation in 33 percent of study subjects.

I was reading this interesting news article about suicide rates in breast implant patient cohort. They noted that these patients have three times more suicide rates than normal population. Although there is link proved about psychological state of patients and the cosmetic surgery request rates, this study proves or asserts the nature of people requesting cosmetic breast surgery.

Belgian scientists have successfully transplanted ovarian tissue from a woman to her non-identical sister whose ovaries had been destroyed by chemo and radiotherapy. The tissue went on to produce healthy ovaries capable of producing eggs that when fertilized developed into embryos.