Webcast surgeries promoted with infomercials and advertisements
The point of Shila Renee Mullins’s brain surgery was to remove a malignant tumor threatening to paralyze her left side. But Methodist University Hospital in Memphis also saw an opportunity to promote the hospital to prospective patients.

Freedom
Inspiration is all around us: you can derive new ideas from people you meet, places you visit and observations you make. Sometimes it is enough just to take a look around and observe the beauty of nature surrounding us everywhere. For instance, spring is often considered the most beautiful and inspirational period of the year, [...]

 
This image shows brain activity in a stroke patient before (left) and after (right) two weeks of rehabilitative therapy.
New ways to analyze the brain’s electrical activity might soon help physicians diagnose brain disorders and assess the benefits of treatment. ElMindA, a startup based in Israel, is developing one such system, which it hopes will help [...]

A world-first discovery in a ‘floppy baby’ syndrome
In a world first, West Australian scientists have cured mice of a devastating muscle disease that causes a Floppy Baby Syndrome – a breakthrough that could ultimately help thousands of families across the globe.

Paper art by Simon Schubert
Artist Simon Schubert has created an extraordinary collection of pictures – made up of hundreds of tiny folds in paper.  At first glance the elaborate pictures, which sell for up to $5,300, seem to have been created with pencil or paint but they are actually composed of tiny folds in the [...]