A mother whose hand was amputated when she went into hospital to give birth is suing medical officials in Brazil. The woman - not named in local media - was 39 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to the hospital in Rio de Janeiro on 9th October. She gave birth…
A baby has swallowed over 117 magnetic balls that were successfully removed from the toddler's stomach by skilled surgeons. At the time of the accident, the mother had briefly left her baby boy playing with his magnetic constructor toy set under the older sister's supervision in the Russian capital Moscow.…
These conjoined twins have been baptised by Pope Francis in the Vatican after finally being separated. The pair were recently separated from being joined at the head through complex surgery which involved separating their brains with 3D technology. The girls, named Ervina and Prefina, underwent the complex operations at the…
Turkish surgeons have returned the eyesight of a six-year-old Syrian boy who was blinded by shrapnel during a bomb attack on his home. Abdulrazak Dip was wounded in a bombing attack on the city of Idlib in the north-western Syrian governorate of the same name when a piece of shrapnel…
Video Credit: CEN/@joseluis.ruizhernandez.5 This is the moment brain surgeons use their mobile phones as torches while removing a tumour after the lights failed during a power cut. The incident was filmed at the Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau in the commune of San Miguel in the central Chilean province of Santiago,…
