A researcher developing a miracle microchip that can identify cancer cells and predict how they will act has been awarded a EUR 2 million grant to develop the tech. The cash injection is to be used to adapt the technology to customise immunotherapies tailored to treat individual patients. Physicist Dr…
A cancer patient died with his face eaten alive by maggots after he ignored doctors' advice after leaving hospital. This gruesome photo of his last moments alive shows his face and neck swarming with maggots emerging from deep wounds around his mouth. He died soon after of a heart attack.…
A horrified medical student discovered she had cancer when a professor used her as an example on how to diagnose lumps on a patient's neck. Gabriella Barboza - from Sao Paulo, Brazil - had been called up to the front of the class by her teacher Daniel Lichtenthaler to show…
A heroic rescue dog who travelled to some of the world's worst disaster zones and saved an estimated 53 lives has been diagnosed with a tumour after going into retirement. Frida specialised in helping to save the lives of people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings in earthquakes and…
This young Chinese girl has been praised for saving her pocket money and also collecting bottles so she can raise cash to pay for her brother's chemotherapy treatment. The family lives in Tangshan which is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast Chinese province of Hebei. The young girl,…
