The author describes their experience two and a half years after emergency gallbladder removal surgery in February 2024. Without a gallbladder to store bile, they must take digestive enzymes with fatty meals and have adapted their diet, avoiding high-fat and spicy foods while managing smaller, frequent meals; their IBS symptoms have largely resolved since surgery.
Researchers at MIT developed xvr, an AI technique that rapidly and precisely matches real-time X-rays with preoperative 3D medical scans to guide minimally invasive surgical tools. The system adapts to individual patients in five minutes and achieves sub-millimeter accuracy, potentially making complex procedures like stroke interventions more accessible and safer by reducing complications from imprecise tool positioning.