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Doctors Put a Camera Inside His Chest for an Infection and Found a Living Worm Crawling There

Surgeons in China treating what looked like a chest infection found a live lung fluke moving inside the chest cavity during keyhole surgery.

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Three Good News Stories This Month That Make The World A Little Bit Brighter

We’ve rounded up three positive headlines from the past few weeks that will (hopefully) provide some light in these significantly dark times.

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A Dallas Judge Delayed Her Custody Ruling as Parents Testified Their Newborn Worsened After Open Heart Surgery

At an August 25 hearing, a California couple said their newborn with HLHS struggled after heart surgery. The Dallas judge has not ruled yet.

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A Birth Defect Stayed Silent for 67 Years, Then a 14 Centimeter Pouch Blocked His Intestine

Surgeons found a 14-centimeter Meckel diverticulum causing a bowel obstruction in a 67-year-old man, with no ectopic tissue involved.

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Surgeons Opened His Abdomen and Found a Birth Remnant Strangled Inside a Loop of Fibrous Tissue

A 42-year-old man with no prior surgery had a bowel obstruction. Surgeons found a Meckel diverticulum strangled by a fibrous band.

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Six Flags roller coaster brain surgery explained: How two women ended up needing emergency treatment

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Tim Curry Dies at 80 After Thirteen Years of Adapting to Life Following a Near Fatal Stroke

Tim Curry has died at 80, with no cause released. He spent more than a decade adapting after a 2012 stroke and emergency brain surgery.

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Roughly One in Four Bariatric Surgery Patients Regain a Quarter of the Weight They Lost After Two Years

New research finds that about one in four bariatric surgery patients regained at least a quarter of their lost weight more than two years later.

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She Retched Without Vomiting and Tore Her Esophagus While a Second Emergency Sat in Her Groin

A 70-year-old woman retched without vomiting and tore her esophagus. The same CT scan revealed a trapped groin hernia full of small bowel.

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His Face Ballooned Two Hours After Brain Surgery, and the Diagnosis Has an Unfortunate Nickname

An 87-year-old man's salivary glands swelled two hours after shunt surgery. His neck gained five centimeters, then it all reversed within 48 hours.

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Fifty Centimeters of Snapped Catheter Trailed into His Aorta, and Only Open-Heart Surgery Could Retrieve It

A stent balloon shaft snapped during angioplasty, leaving 50 centimeters trailing into the aorta. Two months later, a second device burst.

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Ogura undergoes surgery after training accident in Japan

Ai Ogura’s operation was successful, but the length of his recovery period remains unclear

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Joey King Flashed Her Underwear At Movie Premiere, Then Got Hit With Plastic Surgery Accusations

Joey King flashed her underwear during the London premiere of ‘Practical Magic 2,’ in which she shares the screen with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

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Nails Came Out of His Stomach in Surgery, and Then a Coin Turned Up That No Scan Had Caught

Surgeons pulled nails from a man's stomach after his chest abscess had drained for months. Later, an endoscopy found a coin nobody had seen.

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Ai Ogura undergoes surgery after training accident in Japan

Ogura’s operation was successful, but the length of his recovery period remains unclear

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World-first: AI guides live brain surgery in the UK to save patient's sight

A British man has become the first patient in the world to undergo brain surgery guided live by artificial intelligence, in an operation that saved his sight.

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Busy Philipps Says Her Brain 'Felt Broken' for Years Before Doctors Found Malignant Tumour

Busy Philipps discusses her experience with a rare brain tumour, initially misattributed to perimenopause, and her subsequent surgeries and recovery.

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AI used in real time during world-first brain tumour surgery

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UK patient first in the world to have brain tumour removed through AI-assisted surgery

Rhys Hibbert became a part of history when he had his brain tumour removed

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A Band Placed to Prevent Preterm Birth Turned Up Seven Years Later Inside the Patient's Rectum

Surgeons found two cervical cerclage bands inside a patient's rectum during a routine removal, reported as the first case of intestinal erosion.

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Nearly Everyone in a Paralysis Survey Would Accept a Brain Implant for One Rarely Discussed Function

In a survey of 71 stroke and spinal cord injury patients, 98% would accept brain implant surgery to regain bowel and bladder control.

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Medtronic Recalls 135,875 Barbed Surgical Sutures Over Torn Sterile Packaging and Patients Already Treated Need Monitoring

Covidien recalled 135,875 V-Loc 90 wound closure devices due to torn sterile packaging. Patients already treated should be watched for infection.

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An AI Read the Fat Around the Tumor Instead of the Tumor and Still Sorted Cancer Risk

A model trained on belly fat, not the tumor itself, graded gastrointestinal stromal tumors before surgery. The external test was very small.

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Busy Philipps thought she was healthy when a full-body MRI revealed a rare brain tumor she never knew was growing inside her

Actress Busy Philipps bravely shared her health journey following two brain surgeries for a rare malignant tumor known as oligodendroglioma. Discovered during a full-body MRI scan she nearly skipped, the 2.6-centimeter lesion posed a significant health risk. After an initial surgery to remove the tumor, she faced further complications that…

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Jake Knapp Undergoes Surgery After Narrowly Missing Out On Tour Championship Spot

A ligament injury in Knapp's left thumb midway through the season halted a strong start to his year, with the American going under the knife to correct the issue

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