First Girl Doctor

A woman in Brazil who received a womb transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a baby girl in the first successful case of its kind, doctors reported.

The teenage girl, Maya Kashyap, who studied at a government school, will be the first doctor from Dornapal after completing MBBS degree in 2023 from Ambikapur medical college.

A toddler born with three legs -- because body parts of a twin had grown inside her -- was returning home to Bangladesh Friday after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run, her doctor said.

A 44-year-old Indian-origin woman doctor has been arrested and charged with performing genital mutilation on girls aged 6 to 8, believed to be the first such in the US.

A young Bangladeshi girl with bark-like warts growing on her face could be the first female ever afflicted by so-called "tree man syndrome", doctors studying the rare condition said Tuesday.

An Indian-origin surgeon in the UK has pulled off a complex kidney transplant on a three-year-old girl using 3D printing, believed to be among the world's first such operations.

Doctors on Friday started the medical procedure to abort a 25-week pregnancy of a minor rape victim after Supreme Court intervened in the girl's favour, in what might be a first of its kind case in the Indian medico-legal history.

23-year-old Rizwana Pathan went into labour late Monday night in a hospital in Vadodara. Anxious yet anticipating the birth of their child, Rizwana and Siraj Pathan were looking forward to celebrating. They are now mourning the death of their new born. Rizwana delivered in the waiting area, unable to reach the labour room. Their new born baby girl ...

A farmer at work in his fields in eastern Maharashtra was caught off guard when he heard loud cries from a closed gunny bag. He opened the bag, lying near the Pus River, to find a tiny baby girl inside. The farmer phoned the local police station for help. The baby was rushed to a hospital for first aid, and then moved to another, where doctors sa...

A Mumbai-born Indian doctor made a landmark breakthrough in medical science, as the first biologically tissue-engineered vein grown from a patient's own stem cells has been successfully transplanted into a 10-year-old girl with portal vein obstruction, dramatically enhancing her quality of life, reports The Lancet.

For the first time in the country, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad harvested organs from a four-day-old baby girl on Tuesday, making the infant, whose heart valves and eyes were retrieved, the country's youngest organ donor ever.

Swine flu has now claimed 15 lives in India. Balu Kulund, a 41-year-old man died at Sasson Hospital in Pune.

A woman in Brazil who received a womb transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a baby girl in the first successful case of its kind, doctors reported.

The teenage girl, Maya Kashyap, who studied at a government school, will be the first doctor from Dornapal after completing MBBS degree in 2023 from Ambikapur medical college.

A toddler born with three legs -- because body parts of a twin had grown inside her -- was returning home to Bangladesh Friday after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run, her doctor said.

A 44-year-old Indian-origin woman doctor has been arrested and charged with performing genital mutilation on girls aged 6 to 8, believed to be the first such in the US.

A young Bangladeshi girl with bark-like warts growing on her face could be the first female ever afflicted by so-called "tree man syndrome", doctors studying the rare condition said Tuesday.

An Indian-origin surgeon in the UK has pulled off a complex kidney transplant on a three-year-old girl using 3D printing, believed to be among the world's first such operations.

Doctors on Friday started the medical procedure to abort a 25-week pregnancy of a minor rape victim after Supreme Court intervened in the girl's favour, in what might be a first of its kind case in the Indian medico-legal history.

23-year-old Rizwana Pathan went into labour late Monday night in a hospital in Vadodara. Anxious yet anticipating the birth of their child, Rizwana and Siraj Pathan were looking forward to celebrating. They are now mourning the death of their new born. Rizwana delivered in the waiting area, unable to reach the labour room. Their new born baby girl ...

A farmer at work in his fields in eastern Maharashtra was caught off guard when he heard loud cries from a closed gunny bag. He opened the bag, lying near the Pus River, to find a tiny baby girl inside. The farmer phoned the local police station for help. The baby was rushed to a hospital for first aid, and then moved to another, where doctors sa...

A Mumbai-born Indian doctor made a landmark breakthrough in medical science, as the first biologically tissue-engineered vein grown from a patient's own stem cells has been successfully transplanted into a 10-year-old girl with portal vein obstruction, dramatically enhancing her quality of life, reports The Lancet.

For the first time in the country, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad harvested organs from a four-day-old baby girl on Tuesday, making the infant, whose heart valves and eyes were retrieved, the country's youngest organ donor ever.

Swine flu has now claimed 15 lives in India. Balu Kulund, a 41-year-old man died at Sasson Hospital in Pune.