Smart cutting system used by female sawflies could transform surgery and reduce patient harm

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plants—a ...

The Alarming Boom in Height Surgery, And Why It's So Risky

Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bones stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in ...
Yahoo Finance

Quantum Surgical obtains CE mark approval to treat patients with bone tumors and lesions using its Epione® robot

Montpellier, September 4 th 2025 – Quantum Surgical has obtained CE mark approval for the expanded use of its Epione® robotic platform in the treatment of bone tumors and metastases. The platform can ...
ZDNet

Researchers develop surgical bone screws that biodegrade in two years

Most modern broken bones are healed with the help of titanium screws and plates that sometimes must be removed afterward. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and ...
Medscape

Surgical Kryptonite: Bone Cement Improves QoL and Physical Disability in CABG Patients

October 26, 2010 (Montreal, Quebec City) — Superman avoided kryptonite, one of the few things that could bring him down, but cardiac surgeons might one day willingly embrace another form of Kryptonite ...
London Evening Standard

The hypnotist who snubbed an anaesthetic and sent himself into trance for painful bone-cutting surgery

A hypnotherapist had an 83-minute operation on his arm with no anaesthetic. At one point, Alex Lenkei even heard the surgeon say: "Can I have the saw, please?" Because he had put himself into a ...