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Health & Wellness News tagged with surgery

Conjoined Twins Separated in Historic 25-Hour Surgery
Health & Wellness  (tags: twin babies, seperation, surgery, head, risks, babies )

Lone
- 7 days ago - foxnews.com
MELBOURNE, Australia -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue.
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8-Year-Old Girl Happy With Chance at Being Normal
Health & Wellness  (tags: child, lymphoblastic leukemia, chemotherapy, Radiation treatment, disease, family, health, healthcare, surgery, infection, eye, cancer of blood-forming tissues, bone marrow )

Kelli
- 15 days ago - azcentral.com
Amber was not yet 2 when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She was 5 when the disease came back. Amber underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Her immune system was knocked out, and her bone marrow had to be replaced.
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Doctors Remove Piece of 'Wendy's' Plastic Lodged in Man's Lung for Two Years
Health & Wellness  (tags: lung problems, plastic, surgery, breathing )

Lone
- 65 days ago - nydailynews.com
For the first time in two years, a former Queens man is breathing easier after doctors solved a medical mystery by removing a piece of a fast-food utensil from his lung.
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Need Surgery? Do Your Hospital Homework!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, protection, research, hospitals, doctors, surgery, risks, warning, illness )

Dee
- 215 days ago - cbn.com
Click the player to watch the report from CBN News Medical Reporter Lorie Johnson followed by comments from Pat Robertson.
1 comment
French Patient Gets World's First Hands, Face Transplant - France
Health & Wellness  (tags: france, transplant, face, hands, surgery, first, man, hospital, paris )

Chrissy
- 230 days ago - abc.net.au
French surgeons have replaced the face and both hands of a man horribly disfigured by an accident, the hospital where the operation took place announced. The 30-year-old recipient, on a donor waiting list for more a year, "had scars from burns to the face
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Surgeon Saves Boy's Life By Text - UK/Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: uk, britain, england, surgeon, congo, africa, surgery, Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF, amputation, sms, tect )

Chrissy
- 356 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Fron
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Royal Children's Hospital Red Tape Denies Dying Boy Nathan Garcia a Chance - Victoria, Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, victoria, heart, surgery, scoliosis, child, surgeons, operation, risks, treatment )

Chrissy
- 365 days ago - news.com.au
A SIX-year-old boy with only half a heart is dying as red tape prevents Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital surgeons giving him an operation and a chance to save his life. As well as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Nathan Garcia suffers from scoliosis
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NT Woman Wakes During Surgery But Is Paralysed and Unable to Scream - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, northern territory, surgery, health, nightmare, alice springs )

Chrissy
- 370 days ago - news.com.au
A NORTHERN Territory woman says she will have nightmares for the rest of her life after an horrific operation gone wrong at the Alice Springs Hospital. During the ordeal Rebecca Jones, 24, claims she woke up during abdominal surgery and could feel every
2 comments
Miracle Photo of Unborn Baby, Reaching Out for Help During Surgery
Health & Wellness  (tags: miracle, babies, pregnancy, surgery, life-saving, spina bifida, fertility )

Francesca
- 528 days ago - joseromia.tripod.com
This is an incredible picture and story - a true miracle; it moved me to tears. It just shows how strong the life-force is in the unborn; and to think that babies can still be aborted at this stage is unthinkable; I hope it makes people think twice.
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Federal Panel Seeks Clearer Warnings on Lasik Eye Surgery
Health & Wellness  (tags: eye, surgery, lasik, warnings, vision, pain )

Eduardo
- 577 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Patients harmed by Lasik eye surgery told federal health advisers of severe eye pain, blurred vision and even a son's suicide. The advisers recommended that the government warn more clearly about the risks of the hugely popular operations.
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Kitten Born With Six Legs Needs Operation
Health & Wellness  (tags: cats, pets, surgery, help )

Susan
- 580 days ago - local10.com
COOPER CITY, Fla. -- At 6 weeks old, Hex the kitten is as sprightly and energetic as any newborn kitten, except for one noticeable difference: He has six legs
4 comments
Unauthorized Psychosurgery Expose!
Health & Wellness  (tags: surgery, brain, unauthorized, experimental, vivisection, expose )

Alf
- 628 days ago - geocities.com
This victim of unauthorized psychosurgical experimentation has lobbied for years to educate the public and bring his own experience before the courts. Tell Your Story! If you have discovered that you are the victim of unauthorized experimental psychosur
1 comment
Young Hero Faces Up to His Future
Health & Wellness  (tags: skeletan, surgery )

Ingrid
- 629 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Jason Crombie, who suffers from a rare condition resulting in facial and skeletal deformities had a tough decision on whether or not to go ahead with an operation that would give him a new face.
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Gecko's Stickiness Inspires New Surgical Bandage
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, technology, news, scientists, humans, interesting, discovery, health, healthcare, treatment, surgery )

Carla
- 642 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Borrowing a design from the agile, sticky-footed gecko, scientists have created a waterproof, biodegradable adhesive bandage that may one day replace conventional sutures.
1 comment
Boy, 13, Dies After Getting a New Heart
Health & Wellness  (tags: Heart Disease, risks, surgery, death, health, saddness, loss, family, children )

Suzybell
- 666 days ago - indystar.com
Charlestown -- More than 200 people filled a school's gymnasium Friday to donate blood and offset the volumes a 13-year-old boy used after undergoing a heart transplant.But the boy, Marquis Popp, died Saturday, said Debbie Trotter, the leader of the teen'
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