May 9, 2018 Army hospital ear transplant surgery reportedly done with ear ‘grown’ in soldier’s arm Physicians at an Army medical facility in Texas were able to surgically give a soldier a brand new ear after she lost the use of her own following a car accident, according to a report Monday.
May 7, 2018 Boy, 13, regains consciousness after parents sign papers to donate his organs A 13-year-old boy who was declared brain dead defied odds when he regained consciousness after his parents had signed papers to donate his organs.
May 4, 2018 Woman lived with cockroach in her ear for 9 days after it crawled in while she was sleeping A Florida woman lived through a real-life nightmare last month and is now sharing how she came to learn that a cockroach crawled into her ear while she was sleeping.
May 3, 2018 Newlywed California couple stranded in Tahiti after husband suffers severe injury on last day of honeymoon A California couple’s honeymoon in the South Pacific has turned into an extended getaway – and a “nightmare” – as they remained holed up in a hospital a following severe spinal cord injury that the husband suffered on what was supposed to be the last day of the trip.
April 30, 2018 Girl battling bone cancer has leg reattached backward When Amelia Eldred, an active 7-year-old in England, needed her leg amputated to treat bone cancer, doctors performed an unusual surgery: They removed the middle part of her leg and then reattached the lower part of her leg — but backward.
April 25, 2018 Mom has foot amputated after discovering cancerous tumor during pedicure A North Carolina mother’s decision to amputate her right foot in hopes of preventing a cancerous tumor from spreading did not come easy, but she said it was her love of life and her kids that ultimately helped her make it.
April 25, 2018 Chicago baby fitted with world's tiniest mechanical heart valve A Chicago baby is thriving after she became one of the first to receive a mechanical heart valve.
April 9, 2018 Russian woman dies after given formaldehyde instead of saline drip A Russian woman was embalmed alive when doctors unwittingly put her on a formaldehyde-based drip during a routine surgery, according to a report Sunday.
April 7, 2018 Smartphone app might offer new way to measure blood flow An experimental smartphone app might be an effective alternative to a traditional method of assessing circulation in people who need surgery to restore normal blood flow to the heart, a small study suggests.
March 28, 2018 Surgeons amazed after removing over 2,000 gallstones from woman Doctors are amazed after removing 2,350 stones from a woman's gallbladder.