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Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor

Posted by timothy on from the and-yes-it-had-permission-to-do-so dept.

Raver32 points out an article in the Victoria Times Colonist about an interesting advance in robotic surgery: "Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumor from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game, to guide the two-armed robot through Paige Nickason's brain during the nine-hour surgery Monday. Surgical instruments acting as the hands of the robot — called NeuroArm — provided surgeons with the tools needed to successfully remove the egg-shaped tumor."

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  1. You see now, Doctor Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Daleks are our friends. The EXTERMINATE part is them wanting to cure us. Of all ills.

    EXTERMINAAATE!

  2. Obama's campaign anthem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Niggers out there makin' that dolla
    I pulled up in my '64 Impala.
    They greet me with a 40 and I start drinkin'
    And from the 8-ball my breath starts stinkin.'

    Oh noes! Ted Kennedy, the fat drunk who killed a woman and then won a Senate seat and spent his life trying to destroy America from within, had a seizure! What will we do without this corpulent sop to guide us?