A man who swallowed a pair of spectacle arms for a bet had to beg doctors to remove them four years later. The prankster - named only as Mr Li in Chinese media - had been too embarrassed to approach doctors after gulping down the arms on a drunken night…
A former jailbird is suing prison officials after claiming that his leg had to be amputated when doctors refused to treat an ulcer on his heel. One-time inmate Clayton McCray, 27, says the medics not only refused to treat him but they confiscated his wheelchair too, worsening the condition. It…
A huge bladder stone that looks like a giant potato has been removed from a Turkish man by stunned doctors. The operation took place in the Urology Department of Fatsa State Hospital, in the town of Fatsa, in the northern Turkish province of Ordu. According to local reports, the male…
Doctors have performed a rare, cutting-edge stem cell transplant surgery on a baby boy who was born prematurely and weighing only 495 grammes to help him develop his tiny lungs. A doctor at the hospital said that the procedure was "one of the few transplants [of its kind] in the…
A pregnant woman has let doctors kill one of the two babies in her womb so that its twin would live. Cavidan Asir, 40, allowed doctors to perform a procedure to stop the baby's heart after they detected an anomaly. The operation also meant that the other child, which appeared…
