Hunterian Museum puts anatomical curiosities back on display
11 May 2023
From sloth fetuses to vulture heads, the Hunterian Museum showcases the weird and wonderful medical collection of pioneering surgeon John Hunter
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Brain surgery before birth fixes abnormal blood vessel in fetus
4 May 2023
A vein of Galen malformation is a condition that can place pressure on a fetus’s heart and lungs and deprive the brain of oxygen. Surgeons corrected this type of blood vessel problem in a fetus for the first time
Doctors are hypnotising people before surgery to help reduce anxiety
28 April 2023
Listening to hypnosis recordings can reduce a person's pain and nerves during a medical procedure, and could even mean that they require a lower dose of sedatives
Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed
21 April 2023
Your biological age - a measure based on markers on your DNA, rather than your number of birthdays - can rise and fall in relation to stressful events
Woman has entire scalp reattached after it was ripped off by a drill
19 January 2023
Surgeons reattached a woman’s scalp by meticulously stitching the skin and blood vessels back together after her hair was caught in a column drill and torn off
Avoiding liquids before surgery may be an unnecessary precaution
18 January 2023
Most hospitals ban all drinks for two hours before surgery, but there is growing evidence that these guidelines are out of date, says Clare Wilson
People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition
15 August 2022
Adults who had the left or right hemisphere of their brain removed as children to treat epileptic seizures had accuracy scores of over 80 per cent on word and face recognition tasks
Black people less likely than white to get Parkinson’s surgery in US
9 June 2022
Researchers analysed more than 50,000 deep brain stimulation procedures carried out in the US and found that Black people were five times less likely to have the surgery than their white counterparts
Burst of ultrasound waves can break up kidney stones in 10 minutes
25 March 2022
Delivering low-amplitude, high-frequency ultrasound waves could fragment a kidney stone more quickly than existing high-amplitude, low-frequency treatments
Robot performs keyhole surgery on pigs with little help from doctors
26 January 2022
An autonomous surgical robot joined sections of intestine together inside the abdominal cavities of live pigs, with limited intervention from human surgeons
