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If you are looking for medical videos online, you would find scores of websites hosting them, like, MedicalVideos.us, Medclip. com, Medicalive.net, VideoMD, and MD Kiosk. The videos and clips hosted at these websites are found invaluable by doctors, medical students, nurses and others who wish to learn new techniques or get updated with the latest advances in the field of medicine.

However, amongst all these medical-related websites, MedicalVideos.us stands apart, because, currently, it is the only one which hosts medical video material online according to the scientific protocols in video format laid down by the The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Yes, only after the approval by the JoVE website each video clip gets posted on the MedicalVideos.us website.

It is an extraordinary online library dedicated to medical videos, movies, sounds, audios, pictures, images, illustrations and other media related to Medicine and Surgery, of truly high quality. The videos are made available under these categories include Anaes-thesia, Anatomy, Cardio-Thoracic Surgeries, Cardio-logy, Dentistry, Dermatology,  ENT, Funny Videos, General Procedures, Health Inform-ation and News,  Histology and Histopathology, Interventional Radiology, Laparoscopy, Medical Examination, Neurosurgery, Nursing Videos, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oncology and Cancers, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pediatric Surgery,  Pediatrics, Pharmaceutical, Physical Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Surgeries, Surgical Examination and Urology.

There are literally hundreds of videos to view, uploaded from all over the world, including 197 videos related to surgeries carried out in India. Among them is ‘The tubal ligation reversal’, a surgical procedure that restores fertility to women after a tubal ligation. The video shows the surgery carried out on Sarah from UK, at Mumbai.

The video on neck-lift surgery shows how it was carried out on NRI Roshan Vance who wanted to  reshape his neck. Apart from getting a neck-lift procedure, Roshan also took a procedure of blepharoplasty to reshape his eyelids!

The recently added videos include Overview of Coronary Artery Disease - Animation 3D, Basic Surgical Skills, Modern Management of Endometriosis by A K Trehan, and Bridging the Gap between Alternative Medicine Evidence Based Medicine.

You can search for the videos, audios and images by using Yidio Video Search at http://www.yidio.com/channel/medicalvideos.us. The videos can be downloaded free and played by using the Medical Videos Player, an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It is programmed to play all formats of medical videos and FLV files which are supported by www.Medical Videos.us.

Features are not exclusive to medical videos and you can use it to play any other media files or your favourite movies. The 5.73MB Medical Videos Player which has a low CPU usage too can be downloaded at http://download.cnet. com/Medical-Videos-Player/3000-13632_4-10831510.html.

At MedicalVideos.us you can also access the Blog of Medical Videos to post or peruse important medical links, images and news. The blog is categorised under Interesting Articles, Medical Atlases, Medical News, Medical Videos Updates, MedicalVideos.us News, and Uncategorized.

The latest post at the blog is about Samuel Lin, MD, whose new website is www.LinPlastic Surgery.com. His website complies with the medical web 2.0 technology through providing a way for patients to communicate and be able to interact with their physician through the web.

The website provides full details on many aspects of various plastic surgery procedures conducted by Dr Lin. It also provides the service of free online consultation and a patient or anyone can schedule to meet Dr Lin in person through the Contact Us page.

Doctors, surgeons, medical students, nurses and healthcare personnel from all over the world can get listed in MedicalVideos directory, acclaimed as the biggest directory of medical personnel on the web.They stay in touch with each other through Facebook at  www.facebook. com/pages/Medical-Videos/189909889666.