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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved a new voluntary male circumcision device called ‘SangRing’ that makes an operation redundant with minimal bleeding and disposable. ShangRing, named after its inventor Shang Jianzhong, comes with two concentric plastic rings that lock together over the foreskin and make male circumcision easier and help mostly the HIV prevention program in Africa. The program has ...

A lover of music never fails to play guitar even when his brain is bared open for surgery by doctors. So is this Brazilian musician, Anthony Kulkamp Dias, 33, who continued his passion for 20 years even on the operation table while doctors were busy removing his brain tumour. He was asked to remain conscious as doctors feared lapse of ...

CERN, which was able to produce epoch-making anti-matter or God’s Particle will resume its operations with its new refurbished Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Monday, March 23, 2015 after a gap of over two years for maintenance. The renovated LHC will now double its accelerator for running at a collision energy of 13 TeV, nearly double its last time energy ...

US actress Joan Rivers died from cerebral damage caused by lack of oxygen in her blood, a “predictable complication” during a medical procedure, the New York Chief Medical Examiner’s Office has announced. The popular comedienne, performer and TV host died in New York Sep 4, a week after undergoing a minor throat operation that required her to be admitted on ...

Researchers have developed a robotic device for people suffering from epilepsy that would enter through the cheek bone, thereby avoiding having to drill through the skull besides being much closer to the target area. The device has is a 1.14 mm nickel-titanium needle that operates like a mechanical pencil with concentric tubes, some of which are curved, that allow the ...