November 2, 2017 Bee stinger gets stuck in teen's throat One honeybee's stinger wound up in a pretty weird location: lodged in the back of a teen girl's throat, a recent report of the case reveals.
October 30, 2017 Bears tight end undergoes emergency surgery after gruesome leg injury Chicago Bears tight end Zach Miller underwent emergency surgery on Sunday night after suffering a gruesome injury to his knee that reportedly him in danger of losing his leg.
October 30, 2017 Leaking lighter removed from patient's stomach One Florida man's stomach pain turned out to have an unusual cause: A lighter that the man had swallowed was leaking lighter fluid into his gut, according to a recent report of the man's case.
October 26, 2017 First test of anti-epilepsy surgeries in children shows dramatic benefit Brain surgery for children whose epilepsy is resistant to drug therapy can produce a 10-fold increase in the odds of being seizure-free after one year and can do it without affecting IQ, according to a new Indian study of 116 patients in The New England Journal of Medicine.
October 23, 2017 Formerly conjoined twins thriving after separation surgery A pair of twins who were formerly connected at the head are sitting up on their own and continuing to hit crucial developmental milestones after undergoing separation surgery in June.
October 13, 2017 Family blames hospital after mom loses limbs to flesh-eating bacteria following childbirth A Canadian mother has filed a claim against her doctors and the hospital she gave birth in after she lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria infection and now faces a kidney transplant.
October 13, 2017 Man walks to hospital with knife in chest after being stabbed in heart, reports say Authorities are investigating after a 35-year-old former EMT checked himself into a local hospital on Monday after being stabbed in the heart.
October 5, 2017 Mom loses finger in freak injury at son's baseball practice A Tennessee mother who felt some pain after catching her left ring finger on the fence at her son’s T-ball practice said she initially thought her wedding band had cut her skin, but then she looked down and realized that her finger was gone.
October 4, 2017 Doctors remove 100 pieces of metal from man's stomach Surgeons removed more than 100 pieces of metal of various shapes and sizes from the stomach of a man in France, according to a new report of the man's case.
October 3, 2017 Las Vegas shooting victim loses eye, faces potential brain damage One of the 520 victims injured in Sunday’s Las Vegas massacre has lost her right eye and is in a coma in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU).