A miracle baby born three and a half months premature and weighing less than a bag of sugar is ready to go home, his overjoyed parents have been told. Mum-to-be Camila Abella, 23, had gone to hospital in San Juan, west-central Argentina on 8th June complaining of pain in her…
This is the baffling haul of metal objects surgeons removed from a woman's stomach after she went to hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The 25-year-old - not named in local media - had been taken to Van Training and Research Hospital in eastern Turkey in agony. Scans revealed her stomach…
Surgeons have extracted a wooden toothpick from a woman's liver after she went to A&E with stomach pain. The young woman, name and age not reported, presented herself at the emergency room of an unnamed hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus, complaining of acute stomach pain and fever on an…
Doctors who X-rayed a man complaining of abdominal pains were amazed to discover that he had swallowed an entire mobile phone. Even more surprising, when they quizzed the unnamed man he admitted that he had actually swallowed it half a year previously, and had been too embarrassed to come forward,…
A former gymnast is set to go on trial by jury for killing her newborn baby girl by throwing her down a sixth-floor rubbish chute after sending messages to her partner complaining she did not want “another mouth to feed”. Ana Carolina Moraes da Silva, 29, who already had a…
An Austrian woman is being prosecuted after complaining about animal rights activists sterilising cats because it meant there were not enough kittens to feed her pet dog. The animal rights activists had at first thought that the woman was joking, but when she insisted that there was nothing wrong with…
This is the moment medics find a live spider crawling through a woman’s ear canal after the pensioner went to hospital complaining of itching and a “stinging pain”. The animal is believed to have been living in its warm and moist new ‘den’ for at least a week until its…
This is the wriggling two-inch leech plucked out of a young boy’s nose after he went to hospital complaining of a constant itch and a doctor found the slimy parasite living inside his head. Doctor Li Wenbo, ENT specialist at Donghua Hospital in the city of Dongguan, in South China’s…
Doctors examining a woman complaining of needle-like pains in her abdomen have discovered a sharp fish bone which moved from her stomach to her liver after being swallowed eight years ago. General surgery specialist Zhu Guomin made the crucial discovery when examining the 51-year-old female patient at the First Affiliated…