Frozen heads flown in for Brighton medical conference

1:00pm Saturday 19th May 2012 in News

Seventeen frozen human heads were imported into Sussex from the US this week.

The World Federation of Skull Base Societies and the European Skull Base Society met in Brighton this week.

The conference brought together neurosurgeons, ear, nose and throat, plastic and maxillofacial surgeons, radiologists and radiation oncologists.

They came from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and other centres in more than 50 countries.

A specialist course took place in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School anatomy laboratory at the start of the week, to offering training on the latest treatments and developments.

The rest of the week included round table talks, keynote debates on controversial topics, disease specific expert panels, focus groups on advances in surgical techniques and diagnostic developments.

Comments(12)

John Fallon says...
1:25pm Sat 19 May 12

You know what they say - 16 heads is better than one.

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BURIRAM says...
1:42pm Sat 19 May 12

At least they had a head start

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Wendywoodlandh says...
2:12pm Sat 19 May 12

If it helps people with epilepsy, m,s, parkinson,& any other neoro. Problems then yes why not !!!??

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lordenglandofsussex says...
3:37pm Sat 19 May 12

What's wrong with British heads?

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Goldenwight says...
3:53pm Sat 19 May 12

If all they needed was cold, inactive brains, why didn't they just go along to a Council meeting?

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lorrie1 says...
4:06pm Sat 19 May 12

I know a woman who gives free head!

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notaconspiracy says...
4:59pm Sat 19 May 12

Surely a major point of having these conventions here is make use of local resources?

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
5:11pm Sat 19 May 12

For a moment I thought we were back to talking about ben duncan et al.....however, at least these heads have some use to society.

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MikeyA says...
2:19pm Sun 20 May 12

Goldenwight wrote:
If all they needed was cold, inactive brains, why didn't they just go along to a Council meeting?
I think that they've been brought in as replacements.

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NickBrt says...
9:23pm Sun 20 May 12

Very tempting to name my 'favourite' councillors and nominate their frozen heads. But I am a nice guy so won't............

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John Steed says...
10:17pm Sun 20 May 12

lorrie1 wrote:
I know a woman who gives free head!
priceless

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Cyclic says...
10:29am Mon 21 May 12

I had too much Ice Cream yesterday and got brain freeze.

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