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In a groundbreaking development, Apple's latest innovation, the Vision Pro mixed reality headset, took center stage in a recent surgical procedure at the Cromwell Hospital in the UK. This pioneering use of…

Following immense speculation around the health of Kate Middleton after abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace released a photograph Sunday that broke the internet for its botched editing job. Although the image featured the Princess of Wales, Catherine, alongside her three giggling children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis — in honor of Mother’s Day in Britain, it made international headlines for revealing distorted and blurry fingers, a missing sleeve, and uneven zippers. One social media user…

For years, Apple's tech has been a cornerstone in medical advancements. There's the obvious stuff like health tracking on the Apple Watch, alongside ECG and heart rate readings. But there's also more clinical stuff you might not have heard of like iPads reducing NICU stays for newborns or iPhones streamlining nursing operations. Now, with the Vision Pro, Apple can provide even more immersive assistance for medical professionals. Thanks to mixed reality, students can practice on realistic-looking body parts, and surgeons…

"Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months," Princess of Wales says Sunday Kate Middleton has shared the first image of herself since the Princess of Wales underwent abdominal surgery in January, an absence that has since sprouted a bevy of conspiracy theories. Posting on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ official Instagram account on Sunday, the U.K.’s Mother’s Day, Middleton appears smiling with her three children in a photo snapped by Prince William.…

North Carolina rapper TiaCorine was primed for a massive 2023 after a steady multi-year rise that reached new heights with her 2022 album, I Can’t Wait, and its breakthrough single, “Freaky T.” And then she literally lost her voice. “Last year was really hard for me,” Tia tells Rolling Stone on the latest episode of “On Your Radar.” “My voice was messed up, I had to have vocal cord surgery, I was on tour most of the time, I had a lot of shows I needed to finish out.”  On top of all that, she was trying to…

Robert Alvarez and Adrian Rivas both started playing their respective instruments — guitar and drums — at the age of 12. They shared a love of rock, especially the heavier kind, like grunge and metal. And, years later, each received the same devastating medical diagnosis: a brain tumor. Rivas and Alvarez hadn’t met by the time they were individually considering treatment options. But their common experience would lead them to play music together under very special circumstances. Alvarez was in high…

In a world first, researchers have printed multi-layered, living skin directly onto significant injuries in rats for scar-free skin repair. It's not sci-fi – they're genuinely 3D-printing skin (and possibly hair) right into damaged areas.The skin of the head and face is vital to protecting the structures underlying it. It’s also integral to our identity. Full-thickness skin damage caused by traumatic injury to or extensive surgery on the face or head – to remove a cancerous tumor, say – can negatively impact a person’s…

Cardi B has been pretty honest about what procedures she has done throughout the years.In December 2022, the 31-year-old rapper revealed during an Instagram Live that she got most of her biopolymers – also known as butt injections – removed.At the time, she said she had 95 percent of her biopolymers surgically taken out in August, describing it as a “crazy process”, Life and Style Mag reported.The Hustler actress warned: “All I’m going to say is that if you’re young, if you’re 19, 20, 21, and sometimes you’re too skinny,…

Researchers at the Tata Institute in Mumbai announced the development of a novel drug aimed at preventing cancer…

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new pacemaker that’s thinner than a human hair, wireless and operated entirely by light from an optic fiber. The non-invasive device could help regulate heart activity or even stimulate neurons in a set pattern to treat symptoms of conditions like Parkinson’s.The heart pumps thanks to a series of very carefully timed electrical signals, but if those signals fall out of time, they can lead to all sorts of issues, such as strokes, heart attacks or even a fatal failure…