Daughter’s wedding nearly caused a heart attack: doctors diagnose “happy heart syndrome”
Doctors initially suspected a heart attack and performed coronary angiography...
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Rare Nerve Tumor Successfully Removed in Budapest, Restoring Patient’s Ability to Walk
Following the procedure, the patient's quality of life and ability to walk independently were fully restored...
Acute Hepatitis B Reported in Fully Vaccinated Patient Due to Possible Vaccine-Escape Mutation
The patient initially sought medical attention for symptoms resembling heartburn...
“Just Holding On”: New Treatments Offer Hope in the Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer
“That was really hard,” admits Stinson, who describes herself as an optimist. “And I decided not to accept that prognosis,” she says with a laugh...
“Like Winning Twice”: Patient Cured of HIV After Bone Marrow Transplant for Cancer Treatment
HIV is notoriously difficult to eliminate because it can hide within cells across different tissues...
Patient survives 2 days without lungs for first time
Thanks to an artificial lung system...
Why People Who Have Survived Cancer Are Less Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s Disease
Using a mouse model, scientists discovered a possible mechanism that could explain this connection...
Pain Behind the Knee Turned Out to Be a Symptom of a Terrible Disease: UK Nurse Lost Her Leg
The tumor had completely invaded her calf muscle, including the surrounding blood vessels and nerves, making it impossible to remove without amputation...
Nature Medicine: Prediabetes Remission Is Possible Without Dieting or Weight Loss
About one in four participants in lifestyle intervention programs achieved this result, restoring glycemic control without losing weight...
Daily Mirror: A Persistent Chest Bruise Turned Out to Be a Sign of Cancer in a British Woman
Two weeks later, she was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer...
Three Years of Struggle: 3-Year-Old Girl Gets a Chance at Normal Development Thanks to Gene Therapy
Texas Children’s Hospital played a leading role in the clinical trial that led to the approval of Kebilidi...
Doctors in the U.S. Restarted a Stopped Heart from One Infant Inside the Chest of Another
Such cases, while not exceedingly rare, are inherently limited in number...
Woman in Critical Condition After Getting a Tattoo
Her family has urgently flown to Spain to be by her side...
Daily Mail: Man's constipation turns out to be symptom of dangerous type of blood cancer
Ronnie Haston, 68, had never complained about his health and had no chronic diseases...
Teen girl’s large spinal tumor removed through her eye socket
The transorbital approach has been used in the past for brain and sinus tumors…
AI saves life of young woman who asked it to tell her fortune from palm of her hand
She is now recovering at home…
Severe back pain in 28-year-old US mother-of-3 turns out to be cancer symptom
Doctors initially dismissed the pain as a common nerve issue…
Woman who couldn't speak for nearly 20 years after stroke speaks again thanks to new brain implant
The device turned her thoughts into speech in real time…
Man cured of stage-4 cancer thanks to experimental treatment not approved in US
The father-of-one had just months to live after being diagnosed with America's most common cancer…
30-year-old woman's burning feet turn out to be symptom of parasites in her brain
According to available data, it is not ruled that she was infected with a deadly parasitic infection known as angiostrongyliasis…
US woman becomes longest-living recipient of pig organ transplant - for 61 days and counting
“I’m superwoman,” said Towana Looney of Alabama…
US daycare teacher donates part of her liver to seriously ill former student, 5
Carissa Fisher became an unexpected hero...
Researchers report complete curing of UK patient, 2, with rhabdomyosarcoma - thanks to Nanoknife
George from London was the youngest person to be treated for cancer with this technology…
US woman, 53, is world’s only healthy person with genetically modified pig organ transplant
Towana Looney's road to kidney failure began with the ultimate gift…
Pain in fingers of 53-year-old mother-of-3 turns out to be symptom of aggressive form of cancer
Leaving her fighting for her life…
Researchers save life of UK girl, 11, who suffers from disease diagnosed in about just 50 people in the world
The family of Jaydi Hawker say her life was saved after a pioneering study…
UK woman, 36, learns about horrifying diagnosis thanks to her body's reaction to lip augmentation
Edita Jucaite had previously undergone such procedures without any side effects...
Single mom dying of rare disease raising money for her funeral
With the rest of the donations intended to be put into a trust fund for her two children…
Surgeons successfully transplant patient's eyeball, face
Although it was not possible to restore the patient's vision, the blood circulation in his eye was normal…
Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes: Women who survive cardiac arrest are more likely to suffer from anxiety or depression
While we need to do more research to understand exactly why this is happening, we can already say that it shows that women are not getting adequate support after cardiac arrest...
The Daily Mail: Boy, 9, is transplanted with 5 gastrointestinal tract organs
After waiting his whole life for a match...
Girl, 11, diagnosed with rare bone cancer after symptoms dismissed as 'growing pains'
Even though I didn’t think much of it when I was first diagnosed, all I knew is that I didn’t want to die...
Woman left in 17-day coma ‘burning from the inside out’ after taking ibuprofen for period pain
However, a few days later, she started experiencing a mild itch in her eye...
In 64% of COVID-19 survivors, the condition worsens after one year
Respondents experienced a variety of impairments including physical (57 per cent), respiratory (49 per cent, of which 19 per cent required supplemental oxygen), psychiatric (24 per cent) and cognitive impairment (15 per cent)...
US woman is cured just few hours after being diagnosed with lung cancer
April Boudreau, 61, of Texas, was receiving yearly CT scans after having survived cancer three times already...
Exclusive interview: Young woman defeats stage 4 breast cancer
“Some people after us will have to face the same, and they need to know that there were other people who have been through the same…
Teen survives after car fell on his head
“Juan had been riding in his friend’s car near his school when the accident occurred…
Toddler with cancerous tumour undergoes unique surgery
Doctors first assumed that the cause of the ailment is a virus…
UK youngest baby born at 23 weeks may get in Guinness Book of Records
Edie Madoc-Jones weighed 1lb 4oz…
Woman spends week with knife in her body (PHOTOS)
“The risk was that she'd bleed to death if we just took the knife out and we couldn't rush it...
Conjoined twins born fused at the abdomen who now have one leg EACH after separation surgery are thriving at 17 and 'feel the same as everybody else'
The sisters are now 17 and thriving, following an unprecedented 26-hour operation that left them each with one leg when they were aged four...
The true story behind new movie Breakthrough: How a 14-year-old boy died for an HOUR after drowning and then came back to life
Today, John says he has no memory of the accident and shockingly suffered no...
South African musician plays guitar during brain surgery
The procedure is not uncommon...
Cancer surviver gave birth to twins after doctors told her she had more chance of winning the LOTTERY than becoming pregnant
Ms Sandilands said: 'I was told I was practically infertile after cancer treatment and that it was more likely that I'd win the lottery...
Cancer patient who was given DAYS to live celebrates eight years in remission
When her parents took her to the hospital...
Boy, 14, who survived a STROKE was told he would never walk, talk or eat again - but just two months later he's doing all three
But shortly before she got back, Joseph came downstairs from his room, said he wasn't feeling well, then immediately passed out...
Woman, 26, who survived cancer as a child is now a nurse at the hospital that saved her life
Among the team that treated her during her time at CHOP, it was nurse practitioner Patricia Brophy, who has since passed away, whom Toth remembers the most...
'My genes turn into tumors': 28-year-old woman has beaten four cancers caused by her rare DNA
Growing up in Midland, Texas, Lauren had never been to an oncologist, never had genetic testing, but she knew, 'in her bones'...
Teenager who felt 'like a monster' after suffering 95% burns to his body finally embraces his disfigured body
Johnny Quinn, now 18, was just four years old when his family's dog knocked over a candle in the back garden shed he was playing in...
Former cancer patient now a doctor at the hospital that helped her survive
Her journey started when Pratt felt an unusual pain in her leg. She was referred to Children's by a pediatrician, and an x-ray revealed a tumor...
Woman texts dad of boy battling leukaemia by mistake asking for dress advice - with magical results
Tony and the kid’s sweet exchange with Syd went crazy viral on Twitter, with people falling in love with the cheeky and heartwarming way it unfolded...
Woman breathes through a 'blowhole' after surgeons removed her nose and eye during a life-saving cancer operation
She did not know what her face looked like for five weeks following the surgery and said she was 'devastated' when she finally saw her reflection...
Eye surgery without anesthesia and a man with a rocket in his eye: Roger Ohanesian’s memories of 1992
Doctor Ohanesian called his wife and said that his plans had changed and he had to go to Armenia, where his help was required...
Charlie Gard parents hold private talks about his end of life care
His parents and the hospital have until 12:00 BST on Thursday to agree his end of life care and how long he has left…
Terminally ill British baby Charlie Gard granted US 'legal permanent residency'
11-month old Gard suffers from a rare genetic condition known as mitochondrial depletion syndrome which causes brain damage and muscle weakness…
New gene-therapy cancer treatment 'wipes out' dying girl's leukaemia
Erin Cross, of Chester, in Cheshire, was gravely-ill earlier this year with deadly acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells...
Little girl saves her baby sister's life by donating her bone marrow
Ava was only five months old when she was diagnosed with MPS 1 Hurler syndrome...
New York man survived stage 2 breast cancer
Then one day, about a year and a half after a successful mastectomy, Singer happened upon a television show featuring men who had survived breast cancer, including actor Richard Roundtree...
Rare recovery: Florida teen survives brain-eating amoeba
The Florida Department of Health said DeLeon was infected earlier this month while swimming on private property in Broward County...
Baby lived after his mother’s waters broke at 16th week
It was only when she went for her 20-week scan four weeks later that the horrifying truth emerged – her waters had broken just 16 weeks into her pregnancy...
Stem cell donor met with toddler whose life he saved
Just five days after a four-hour extraction, 70ml of Luke’s bone marrow was given to Olly...
Terminal cancer patient's tumour shrank to almost nothing after life-saving stem cell treatment
Now, nine months after starting treatment in America - which included a new combination of drugs and a stem cell transplant from from his sister - his cancer has dramatically U-turned...
