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Surgeons catch a busman’s holiday to Vietnam

For more than 17 years, surgeon Robert Gordon Veith has travelled more than 10,000 kilometres from his home in Seattle, the US, to Vietnam.

"Intelligent knife" can detect cancerous tissue within seconds

 An "intelligent" surgical knife can tell surgeons, within seconds, whether the tissue they are removing is cancerous or not, British researchers reported Wednesday.