Astonished surgeons in Turkey have removed a five-and-a-half-stone tumour from a woman's abdomen in a gruelling, two-hour-long operation. Doctors pose with a mass taken out from the abdomen of a patient in Tekirdag, Turkey, undated photo. The mass reportedly weighed about 35 kilogrammes. (Newsflash) The unnamed woman, aged 40, had…
This hair-raising footage shows a queue of people snaking along Mount Everest's Southeast Ridge in the so-called Death Zone. It was filmed by Taylor Adams of Salt Lake City, Utah, a type 1 diabetic aiming to raise money to help fund a cure for the illness. https://youtu.be/g0-C2jilZbo Taylor describes himself…
A man in Germany has had two toes amputated and has gone through over 30 operations having spent four weeks in a coma after being bitten by a mosquito. Sebastian Rotschke, 27, poses in the intensive care unit in undated photo. He was bit by a Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes…
A researcher in Germany is hoping to cure millions of people affected by hearing loss with a new gene therapy. University professor and researcher Dr Axel Schambach poses in undated photo. His pioneering research at Hannover Medical School, Germany, aimed to cure hearing loss was rewarded with a grant. (Karin…
This is the heartwarming moment when a born-deaf baby bursts into tears as it hears its mother's voice for the first time. The 11-month-old tot had been taken to a doctor's office in the city of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, eastern China, by its parents to have a cochlear implant fitted.…
