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Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation in the early morning hours of Sunday 3 December 1967. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 42 ] Louis Washkansky , a 54-year-old grocer who was suffering from diabetes and incurable heart disease , was the patient.
Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children. [2] [3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family [4] [5] [page needed] As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior. [6]
B. K. Misra — first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery. [1] Frederic E. Mohs (1910–2002) — responsible for the method of surgery now called Mohs surgery
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. He founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
2013. The first growing of a replacement nose on a patient's forehead by surgeons at Imperial College in Fuzhou, China. 2014. The first penis transplant by surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital in South Africa. 2015. The first skull and scalp transplant by surgeons at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas. 2016.
At least eight cancer doctors who were heading to an oncology conference were among dozens killed in a plane crash in Brazil’s Vinhedo on Friday, an official has said.. The ATR 72 twin-engine ...
She didn't succeed at first but later she founded the institute with her great efforts. [12] The foundation stone for Adyar Cancer Institute was laid by prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1952. The hospital, which started functioning on 18 June 1954, was the second of its kind in India. Today it treats nearly 80,000 cancer patients a year. [19 ...
As Sims related, they were visited by "prominent doctors, who endeavored to convince them that they were making a mistake, that they had been deceived, [and] that no such hospital was needed" to treat their condition. [13]: 12–13 He recalled that "I was called a quack and a humbug, and the hospital was pronounced a fraud. Still it went on ...