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Worcester Man Undergoes Surgery to Remove Swallowed AirPod
After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...
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Man Swallows AirPod While Sleeping
A Worcester man had to undergo emergency surgery after accidentally swallowing one of his AirPods while sleeping.
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World's First Successful Face and Double-Hand Transplant Completed
22-year-old Joe DiMeo of New Jersey is the world’s first successful face and double-hand transplant.
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'Magical Moment': Doctor Details Formerly Conjoined Twins Seeing Each Other for 1st Time
When Ervina and Prefina were born two years ago, they were conjoined at the skull, back-to-back. For most of their lives, they never saw the other’s face except when they looked at their reflections in a mirror. In early June, the twins finally had the chance to gaze directly at each other after 30 doctors and nurses separated them during...
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Black Kids Die More Often After Surgery, New Research Shows
A new U.S. study shows Black children die more often after common surgeries than whites.
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Kristen Bell Records Her Husband Dax Shepard Doing Surgery on Himself
Sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands… While practicing social distancing and being in quarantine, Dax Shepard decided to remove the pin from his own broken arm. While it’s unclear how the 45-year-old actor broke his hand, it appears he’s not afraid to repair it. Trolling her husband over his pin removal, Kristen Bell cheekily captioned...
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Elective Surgeries Set to Resume, With Complications and Concerns
As COVID-19 has spread across the country in recent months, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, nonemergency procedures that are scheduled in advance. Cosmetic surgery, hernia repair and cancer operations are among the wide range of elective surgeries that come with varying degrees of complexity and urgency, NBC News reports. The American Hospital Association published a road map to resuming elective surgeries on April...
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Woman Saves Piglet From Traffic, Raises Cash for Its Surgery
A Pennsylvania woman who rescued a piglet that was darting in and out of rush-hour traffic is getting help from local businesses to fund a surgery it needs to survive.
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Former ‘Top Chef' Contestant Writes She Has Year to Live
Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she...
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Patients Sue Northern Indiana Hospital Over Possible Disease Exposure
More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.
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Report: Nick Folk Will Not Play Sunday Against Texans
The Patriots need a kicker for this Sunday’s game. Again. NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport tweeted that recently added Nick Folk underwent an appendectomy that will preven him from playing Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans.
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Illness Hits Patriots Locker Room
Nine Patriots players were absent or limited in practice due to illness Wednesday.
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Jimmy Carter Out of Hospital After Treatment for Brain Bleed
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said Wednesday that the Carters “look forward to enjoying Thanksgiving at home in Plains, where he will continue to recover.”
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2 Dead, 3 Injured in a School Shooting in Russia
A student killed a fellow student and wounded three more in a shooting Thursday at a college in Russia before taking his own life, police said. Russia’s state Investigative Committee said the 19-year-old shooter brought a hunting rifle to class in Blagoveshchensk near the border with China and opened fire on students, killing one and severely injuring three more. It...
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Ex-Gov. Deval Patrick Considering Presidential Run, Sources Say
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is exploring a late run for president, according to people with knowledge of Patrick’s deliberations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Patrick would need to decide soon, as the deadline for candidates to get their names on the ballot is rapidly approaching in some states,...
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Virginia Doctor Allegedly Performed Hysterectomies, Tied Fallopian Tubes Without Consent
A Virginia doctor allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied a patient’s fallopian tubes without consent, federal authorities said in court documents, NBC News reported. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested Friday and charged with health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators, according to papers filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake,...
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Miley Cyrus Undergoes Vocal Cord Surgery After Dealing With Tonsillitis
Miley Cyrus is recovering after undergoing vocal cord surgery and will have to rest her voice for a while. The 26-year-old singer’s condition was first reported by People on Saturday. E! News has confirmed that she has left a hospital and is recovering from vocal cord surgery. People said that doctors discovered damage in her vocal cords, which she had...
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Californian Becomes 1st Black Patient to Receive Full Face Transplant
A California man became the first black patient — and oldest patient — to receive a full face transplant, Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital said Thursday, after a 16-hour procedure several months ago. Robert Chelsea, 68, of Los Angeles — who suffered burns to over 60% of his body and face after his car was struck by a drunk driver...
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Pregnant Woman Who Endured Chemo Gives Birth to Healthy Baby
Just a couple of months after Jade Devis found out she was pregnant, a protruding bump appeared on her chest. It was the beginning of an ordeal that forced the first-time mom and her developing fetus to undergo chemotherapy together after Devis was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer. She did three rounds before giving birth to her son Bradley in...
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Border Patrol's Growing Presence at Hospitals Creates Fear
An armed Border Patrol agent roamed the hallways of an emergency room in Miami on a recent day as nurses wheeled stretchers and medical carts through the hospital and families waited for physicians to treat their loved ones. The agent in the olive-green uniform freely stepped in and out of the room where a woman was taken by ambulance after...