If you’ve never come across an anesthesiologist, you could be considered lucky. Anesthesiology is a medical specialty dedicated to not only helping put people into a drug-induced sleep so they can have surgery, but to pain relief.
An anesthesiologist is a medical doctor who has completed all the medical school and internship/residency requirements to practice medicine, but their residency is at least five years long and focuses on anesthesiology.
What do they learn?
Anesthesiologists need to know how everything works in your body and how the different body systems will react to the different medications and treatments used in anesthesiology. Not only do …read more

The future of heart surgery may involve this little caterpillar-like robot called HeartLander. It inches along on the surface of your heart and is capable of performing:

ablation for atrial fibrillation
lead placement for biventricular pacing
delivery of myocardial regenerative treatments

Watch the videos and learn more at Guardian Unlimited. Is it just me or does it look really huge and awkward stomping on the pig heart?!

Open heart surgery is one of the most invasive surgeries performed. So it is no small feat feat to develop a heart pump that can be placed in the heart via an artery in the groin. Doctors at the Institute of Bioengineering at Brunei University and Royal Brompton Hospital are hoping to make their new technique available to the public soon.