WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Doctors in Russia have removed a huge ball of parasitic worms from a Russian girl's liver that had begun feasting on her living body. The young girl,…
Malta's fattest hedgehog - who was so big at one point that she was unable to even walk - has died of liver failure. Garfield the hedgehog was last seen…
Breastfeeding for longer could reduce the risks of of infants developing obesity later in life, a new study has revealed. Researchers in Spain discovered that lengthening the period when baby…
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…
This one-year-old boy has received a life-changing living donor liver transplant on his birthday after his stepmother turned out to be a viable donor and travelled with him from his…
A Chinese man who ate a delicacy of undercooked fish has lost half a liver after the vital organ was “eaten" from the inside by an army of parasitic flatworms…
A mother hoping to donate her liver to save her dying son was shocked to learn that the hospital had given her the wrong baby nearly 28 years ago. Ms…
The malnourished lion which was rescued from a circus is "fighting" to stay alive after his mysterious weight loss was diagnosed as being caused by liver cancer. Male lion Jupiter…
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…
A heart surgeon stabbed with a 10-inch knife in a waiting room by a patient has survived due to a rare anomaly causing his liver to be on the wrong…