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US Boy's Life Saved After Mother's Google Search Uncovered Rare Brain Condition
A Texas mother's online search led to a life-saving diagnosis and surgery for her 6-year-old son, who was initially misdiagnosed with the flu but was later found to have a rare brain vascular condition.
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UK Woman Mistook Symptoms For Food Poisoning, Later Lost 13 Organs To Rare Cancer
Rebecca Hind, 39, from Cumbria in northwest England, first began feeling unwell after an office Christmas party in late 2018.
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US Doctors Remove Spinal Tumour Through Patient's Eye Socket In Rare Surgery
Karla Flores, a budding manicurist from Maryland, had been struggling with blurred and double vision since 2023, which she first noticed while learning to drive.
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Canadian Surgeons Put 'Tooth' In Blind Woman's Eye To Restore Her Vision
A Canadian blind woman's sight may be restored thanks to a rare "tooth in eye" surgery, where one of her teeth was implanted in her eye.
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Argentina Bans Gender Surgery, Hormone Therapy For Minors
Gender surgeries are very rarely performed on children in Argentina, and trans minors must generally be medically evaluated and diagnosed before starting puberty blockers.
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US Man Receives Successful Face Transplant After Suicide Attempt
In the last 20 years, just a little more than 50 face transplants have been performed worldwide, which makes Mr Pfaff's operation a rare success.
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British TV Presenter Davina McCall Undergoes Brain Surgery After Discovering Rare Tumour
In a video message, McCall described that the tumour's discovery came as a shock to her.
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Chennai Doctors Perform Rare Hernia Surgery On Month-Old Baby
The boy, born at just 28 weeks to Manju, a housewife, and Moorthy who works as a daily wage laborer, underwent surgery on the 23rd day after his birth while under general anesthesia.
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Leech Found Deep In UP Man's Nose. He Stood In Waterfall In The Hills
In a rare surgery, doctors at Nazareth Hospital removed a live foreign body (zoic) from the nose of a man in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
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AIIMS Bhubaneswar Conducts Successful Rare Scalp Tumor Operation
The executive director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Ashutosh Biswas, said the patient had gone to several medical colleges and hospitals for treatment before finally reaching the Department of Plastic Surgery at the institute.
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Kolkata Doctor Removes Nose Pin Screw From Woman's Lung: ''Extremely Rare Case''
Dr Debraj Jash, a pulmonologist at Kolkata's Medica Superspecialty Hospital, performed the surgery and removed the screw, in what he called an ''extremely rare case''.
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Brazilian Woman, 81, Dies After Surgery To Remove Dead Foetus She Carried For 56 Years
An 81-year-old woman in Brazil died after undergoing surgery to remove a 56-year-old foetus from her abdomen, Metro reported.
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UK Girl, 9, Who Was Bullied For Having Only Eye Gets A Bionic Replacement
She spent most of her childhood undergoing more than 20 surgeries to expand her eye socket as she grew.
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In A Rare First, Man Tears Windpipe From Holding His Sneeze
It was revealed by an X-ray that the man had surgical emphysema, a disease where air becomes trapped behind the skin's deepest tissue layers.
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US Doctors Disconnect Half-Brain Of 6-Year-Old Girl To Cure Rare Disease
The surgery took 10 hours and the medical professionals anticipate that she will return to her pre-seizure self after undergoing various forms of physical therapy.
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US Boy's Life Saved After Mother's Google Search Uncovered Rare Brain Condition
A Texas mother's online search led to a life-saving diagnosis and surgery for her 6-year-old son, who was initially misdiagnosed with the flu but was later found to have a rare brain vascular condition.
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UK Woman Mistook Symptoms For Food Poisoning, Later Lost 13 Organs To Rare Cancer
Rebecca Hind, 39, from Cumbria in northwest England, first began feeling unwell after an office Christmas party in late 2018.
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US Doctors Remove Spinal Tumour Through Patient's Eye Socket In Rare Surgery
Karla Flores, a budding manicurist from Maryland, had been struggling with blurred and double vision since 2023, which she first noticed while learning to drive.
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Canadian Surgeons Put 'Tooth' In Blind Woman's Eye To Restore Her Vision
A Canadian blind woman's sight may be restored thanks to a rare "tooth in eye" surgery, where one of her teeth was implanted in her eye.
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Argentina Bans Gender Surgery, Hormone Therapy For Minors
Gender surgeries are very rarely performed on children in Argentina, and trans minors must generally be medically evaluated and diagnosed before starting puberty blockers.
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US Man Receives Successful Face Transplant After Suicide Attempt
In the last 20 years, just a little more than 50 face transplants have been performed worldwide, which makes Mr Pfaff's operation a rare success.
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British TV Presenter Davina McCall Undergoes Brain Surgery After Discovering Rare Tumour
In a video message, McCall described that the tumour's discovery came as a shock to her.
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Chennai Doctors Perform Rare Hernia Surgery On Month-Old Baby
The boy, born at just 28 weeks to Manju, a housewife, and Moorthy who works as a daily wage laborer, underwent surgery on the 23rd day after his birth while under general anesthesia.
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Leech Found Deep In UP Man's Nose. He Stood In Waterfall In The Hills
In a rare surgery, doctors at Nazareth Hospital removed a live foreign body (zoic) from the nose of a man in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
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AIIMS Bhubaneswar Conducts Successful Rare Scalp Tumor Operation
The executive director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Ashutosh Biswas, said the patient had gone to several medical colleges and hospitals for treatment before finally reaching the Department of Plastic Surgery at the institute.
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Kolkata Doctor Removes Nose Pin Screw From Woman's Lung: ''Extremely Rare Case''
Dr Debraj Jash, a pulmonologist at Kolkata's Medica Superspecialty Hospital, performed the surgery and removed the screw, in what he called an ''extremely rare case''.
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Brazilian Woman, 81, Dies After Surgery To Remove Dead Foetus She Carried For 56 Years
An 81-year-old woman in Brazil died after undergoing surgery to remove a 56-year-old foetus from her abdomen, Metro reported.
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UK Girl, 9, Who Was Bullied For Having Only Eye Gets A Bionic Replacement
She spent most of her childhood undergoing more than 20 surgeries to expand her eye socket as she grew.
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In A Rare First, Man Tears Windpipe From Holding His Sneeze
It was revealed by an X-ray that the man had surgical emphysema, a disease where air becomes trapped behind the skin's deepest tissue layers.
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US Doctors Disconnect Half-Brain Of 6-Year-Old Girl To Cure Rare Disease
The surgery took 10 hours and the medical professionals anticipate that she will return to her pre-seizure self after undergoing various forms of physical therapy.
