Surgeons do 1st near-weightless surgery
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_he_me/weightless_surgery"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060927/capt.76feb33071a5472b833c3c66376fcedc.france_weightless_surgery_xbor103.jpg?x=130&y=97&sig=chAEsVkAaacXSAmqJsxgMg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this picture released by CNES/Novespace, patient Philippe Sanchot, on the surgery table at center, undergoes surgery on his arm by French's chief surgeon Dominique Martin, third right, during the world's first zero-gravity surgery, aboard an airplane soaring and diving in and out of weightlessness, over Bordeaux, southwestern France, Wednesday Sept. 27, 2006. The experiment is part of a broader effort to develop robots for future surgeries from a distance, in space or on Earth, the doctors said. People around the table are unidentified. (AP Photo/CNES/NOVESPACE) MANDORY CREDIT CNES/NOVESPACE" border="0" /></a>AP - A team of French doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near zero-gravity conditions Wednesday on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.</p><br clear="all"/>