Boy Born With Giant Tongue Finally Undergoes Surgery.

A baby born with a giant tongue that could have choked him to death can finally smile after surgeons sliced off half of it. Aparajit Lodhi, from Jabalpur in the north Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, suffers from a rare congenital anomaly called Macroglossia, a medical term for an unusually large tongue .The congenital overgrowth disorder was discovered when he was...

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Doctors Shocked As Miniature Brain Is Found Inside The Ovary Of Teenage Girl....

A sixteen-year-old girl went into surgery to have her appendix removed - only to find a miniature brain growing inside a tumor on her ovary. The child from Japan - who has not been identified - left doctors baffled when they found the 10cm-wide tumor, containing a 3cm-wide brain, and clumps of greasy matter hair, all covered by a thin plate of skull bone. Upon closer...

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Doctor Helps Woman Deliver Baby In A Keke Napep In Enugu.

A Nigerian doctor, Ogoo Ekete has been hailed after helping a pregnant woman in labour deliver her baby while traveling to the village in Enugu state. According to Seun Oloketuyi, the delivery was done in a tricycle a.k.a 'Keke Napep' with the aid of a torchlight from a mobile phone.Read the full details as shared by Seun OloketuyiOgoo Ekete is a young Medical Doctor....

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Man Carries His Sick Daughter On His Head, Passes Through Flood In Order To Reach Hospital

A desperate father carried his sick baby daughter on his head and walked for two hours through deep floodwaters to reach the nearest hospital in India. Pangi Satibabu, 30, a farmer, from Kudumusare village in Andhra Pradesh, carried his six-month-old daughter above his head for three miles to the nearest health centre after heavy rainfall led to a deluge. Mr Satibabu...

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WHO Confirms 3rd Case Of Polio In Nigeria

  The World Health Organization has confirmed a third case of polio in Nigeria, Rotary Club said Monday: a crippled toddler found in an area newly liberated from Boko Haram Islamic extremists.The West African nation that once was the global epicenter of the wild polio virus had been declared polio-free last year, along with the African continent. But two cases were...

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Doctors Mistakenly Remove Man's Kidneys During Surgery, Man Finds Out Days Later.

A 25-year-old man in southwest China’s Yunnan province had his both kidneys removed during a surgery where he was lying unconsciously after a traffic accident on March 10, 2016. Neither did the man nor his family members accompanying him know about this until the patient was transferred to another hospital in the province and couldn’t urinate for days.  On March 20,...

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40 Knives From Man's Stomach In India

The man kept his knife-eating habit secret from his family "In my 20 years of practice, I have never seen anything like it," doctor says New Delhi (CNN): A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation. "He had a wild urge to consume metal. Even for us, the experienced surgeons, it was frightening," Dr. Jatinder Malhotra told CNN. "We were so...

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Man's Kidneys Disappear In Adamawa After Operation

It was like a mirage, when one Isa Hamma of ChaffaJaule village in Fufore local government area of Adamawa State presented himself at the Jimeta Clinic and Maternity for an ailment. After diagnoses, he was issued with drugs and discharged and asked to come back after three days for follow up. According to the elder brother of the victim, MallamUmaru Isa Yahya, he said that when they came back for the follow up on the appointed date, the...

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LASUTH Conducts 16 Successful Cochlear Implant Surgeries

The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr Wale Oke has said the institution had conducted 10 successful cochlear implant surgeries. Oke made the disclosure at a news briefing in Lagos that the surgeries were sponsored by the Lagos State Government. He said, "Cochlear is implant, an electronic medical device that replaces the function...

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Nigerian doctors removed giant fibroid weighing 26kg from a woman

According to a post shared on Facebook by Abraham OC Ogolo, doctors at a Nigerian hospital removed a giant fibroid weighing 26kg from a woman's stomach. His post below: "Doctors from Safe Hands Medicare Center Nigeria have removed this. According to the hospitals social media report, confirmatory results shows that the mass weighed 26kg in Histopathology lab and was...

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Food that will improve your sperm count, quality

One common issue about the difficulty in producing babies amongst married couples is the low sperm count and sperm quality. If you doubt this information please schedule a meeting with a Medical laboratory scientist who has records on those who come for testing. The statistics will shock you. Based on our tradition and cultural values, women have been erroneously labelled...

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