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Mar 10, 2023

In extremely rare case, doctors remove fetus from brain of 1-year-old

In an extremely rare case, doctors surgically removed a fetus from the brain of a 1-year-old child. Doctors found the fetus after the child showed delayed motor skill development, an enlarged head circumference and a buildup of fluid in the brain. The report, published Dec. 12, 2022, in the journal...

Sep 19, 2023

Knife blade lodged in a man's belly mysteriously 'floated' to the other side of his body without causing damage

A man got stitched up after being stabbed with a knife — but the next day, he learned that the nearly half-foot blade was still in his belly. The man in Nepal had been stabbed in the upper-right abdomen during a fight, which he poorly remembered due to being drunk....

Nov 8, 2023

Breast implants saved a man's life during a lung transplant. Here's how.

To save a man who needed a double-lung transplant but had a very complicated case, doctors relied on three key tools: antibiotics, an artificial lung and DD-size breast implants. I never imagined we'd be using DD breast implants to help bridge a patient to lung transplantation, but our team is...

Nov 9, 2023

Doctors perform 1st-ever whole eye, partial face transplant

For the first time, a patient received a whole new eye and a partial face in a groundbreaking transplant procedure. The transplant recipient, a 46-year-old from Arkansas named Aaron James, had sustained a 7,200-volt electric shock while working as a high-voltage lineman on June 10, 2021. Most individuals don't survive...

Mar 7, 2024

Life-threatening 'leaks' after surgery could be flagged faster with tiny new device

A tiny, implantable device could detect when tissues in the body spring a leak following gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, and it could do so before those leaks become deadly, new animal research suggests. Patients who've had GI surgery — for example, to remove cancer from their stomach or pancreas — can...