Surgeons in Russia have told how they pulled a massive nail from a three-year-old boy's stomach after he swallowed it to see what would happen. The boy's horrified mum rushed…
A child aged two has been saved after he swallowed a two-inch-long key while playing with it. The incident occurred in Taiyuan city of Shanxi Province, China, local media reported…
A team of expert urologists have removed a shocking total of 418 stones from a 60-year-old patient's kidney, it has emerged. The patient, named Mallesh in local media, had only…
A 60-year-old woman's doctors were stunned after they discovered a three-inch leech lodged in her windpipe during a test procedure to see what had been causing her sore throat and…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Animal welfare officials in Colombia have begun giving pigeons vasectomies as a humane way to keep numbers down in the capital Bogota. The Institute for the Protection…
In a pioneering operation, more than 50 healthcare workers have saved the life of a child still inside its mother's womb. The one-of-a-kind procedure was recently carried out with resounding…
Doctors have successfully removed more than 90 per cent of a small child’s brain tumour after his parents were told it was inoperable and he was flown from Mexico to…
An adorable infant named Emma has received the world’s first intestinal implant from a dead organ donor. The 17-month-old tot - from Segovia, Spain - is the first person in…
This is the moment a doctor removes a ladybird from inside a young boy’s ear after he suffered discomfort for several days. The procedure took place at a health centre…
This incredible footage shows the second of identical twin boys being delivered from his mother’s womb while still inside his amniotic sac in a rare procedure known as an ‘en-caul’…