Lights? Check. Camera? Check. Scalpel????? Um huh, I said scalpel. Check! Very cool indeed. A Cambridge surgeon, Francis Wells, provided entertainment to over 200 members of the public via the operating room. This really is neat!
Dr. Wells talked the audience through the procedure and fielded questions about open heart surgery and valve repairs along the way. When you think about it, this is a much easier way to “teach” about surgical procedures and medical treatments. A normal OR can only handle two dozen or so professionals that cram as close as they can to the ledge of the observation …read more

Researches have identified yet another genetic pattern that would increase a persons likelihood of suffering from heart disease by double fold. Heart Disease is the number 1 leading cause of death in the United States.
In one of two studies reported yesterday in the journal Science, researchers who compared DNA of 17,000 heart patients and healthy volunteers in Europe, the United States and Iceland found that someone carrying a set of genetic variants on Chromosome 9p21 is twice as likely to suffer an early heart attack. For women, that’s before the age of 60, and for men, 50.
They have …read more