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Australian Cricketer Broke Thumb. Doctors Replaced It With Her Big Toe
After Britney Thomas, a 17-year-old Australian cricket player, fractured her thumb during a game, doctors in April 2018 reassured her that a simple surgery and a short recovery in a hard plaster cast would soon have her back on the pitch. So Thomas expected a routine procedure at Latrobe Regional Hospital, a medical center about two hours from Melb...
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He Died After He Was Taken Off Life Support. Then Walked Through The Door
The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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49 Killed In New Zealand Mosque Shootings, Gunman Livestreamed Attack
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. A second mosque was also targeted in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a well-planned "terrorist attack" making for "one of Ne...
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Daycare Said Toddler Fell, But Video Shows Something Much Worse
The mother of a 3-year-old girl went to Brighter Day Care in early February after being told her daughter had been hurt in a fall. She arrived at the St. Louis County day-care center to find her child "covered in blood," with a gash on her head that eventually required seven sutures, according to a lawyer for the family. The child was taken to the ...
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A Soldier Needed An Ear Transplant. Doctors 'Grew' A New One In Her Arm
Two years ago, Army Pvt. Shamika Burrage almost died when she was ejected from her car during a crash in Texas. Afterward, when she woke up in the hospital, she wasn't whole. Her entire left ear was gone.
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Their College-Bound Daughter Was Killed By A Stray Bullet. Then Their Act Of Kindness Touched Thousands.
Chris French headed into the intensive-care unit at Washington Hospital Center last August to visit his mother, who had just had surgery. He was wearing a visor that said FAMU.
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While Undergoing Brain Surgery, A Flute Player Performs
The delicate notes of a flute filled the air of an operating room at a Houston hospital last Tuesday. While playing music during a surgery isn't unusual, this song wasn't being piped through a speaker system.
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Woman Donated Her Embryos After A Fertility Clinic Malfunction. The Response Astonished Her.
The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.
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Family Of Indian Woman Won't Get A Penny After Botched Surgery In US
When Bimla Nayyar dislocated her jaw in January 2012, her family took her to a Dearborn, Michigan, hospital for what was supposed to be a routine surgery. But things went horribly awry after doctors wheeled the 81-year-old grandmother into the operating room.
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Doctor, About To Go Into Labour, Pauses To Deliver Another Woman's Baby
Amanda Hess, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Frankfort, checked into the Frankfort Regional Medical Center as a patient last week, donned a hospital gown and was moments away from induced labor when she heard a woman in another room wailing in pain, NBC News reported Saturday.
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US Lawmaker Steve Scalise Showing Improvement After Baseball Field Shooting
Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday.
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US Lawmaker Steve Scalise Improving After Baseball Field Shooting
US Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House Republican, has shown improvement in the past 36 hours after being shot by a man who opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice earlier in the week, his lead surgeon said on Friday.
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Sextuplets Born In Virginia To Couple Who Spent 17 Years Trying To Conceive A Child
For 17 years, Ajibola and Adeboye Taiwo tried to have a child but had no luck.
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Arnold Palmer, 'King' of The PGA Tour, Dies at 87
Golf legend Arnold Palmer, known on the PGA tour as "The King", died on Sunday at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh
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Australian Cricketer Broke Thumb. Doctors Replaced It With Her Big Toe
After Britney Thomas, a 17-year-old Australian cricket player, fractured her thumb during a game, doctors in April 2018 reassured her that a simple surgery and a short recovery in a hard plaster cast would soon have her back on the pitch. So Thomas expected a routine procedure at Latrobe Regional Hospital, a medical center about two hours from Melb...
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He Died After He Was Taken Off Life Support. Then Walked Through The Door
The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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49 Killed In New Zealand Mosque Shootings, Gunman Livestreamed Attack
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. A second mosque was also targeted in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a well-planned "terrorist attack" making for "one of Ne...
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Daycare Said Toddler Fell, But Video Shows Something Much Worse
The mother of a 3-year-old girl went to Brighter Day Care in early February after being told her daughter had been hurt in a fall. She arrived at the St. Louis County day-care center to find her child "covered in blood," with a gash on her head that eventually required seven sutures, according to a lawyer for the family. The child was taken to the ...
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A Soldier Needed An Ear Transplant. Doctors 'Grew' A New One In Her Arm
Two years ago, Army Pvt. Shamika Burrage almost died when she was ejected from her car during a crash in Texas. Afterward, when she woke up in the hospital, she wasn't whole. Her entire left ear was gone.
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Their College-Bound Daughter Was Killed By A Stray Bullet. Then Their Act Of Kindness Touched Thousands.
Chris French headed into the intensive-care unit at Washington Hospital Center last August to visit his mother, who had just had surgery. He was wearing a visor that said FAMU.
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While Undergoing Brain Surgery, A Flute Player Performs
The delicate notes of a flute filled the air of an operating room at a Houston hospital last Tuesday. While playing music during a surgery isn't unusual, this song wasn't being piped through a speaker system.
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Woman Donated Her Embryos After A Fertility Clinic Malfunction. The Response Astonished Her.
The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.
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Family Of Indian Woman Won't Get A Penny After Botched Surgery In US
When Bimla Nayyar dislocated her jaw in January 2012, her family took her to a Dearborn, Michigan, hospital for what was supposed to be a routine surgery. But things went horribly awry after doctors wheeled the 81-year-old grandmother into the operating room.
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Doctor, About To Go Into Labour, Pauses To Deliver Another Woman's Baby
Amanda Hess, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Frankfort, checked into the Frankfort Regional Medical Center as a patient last week, donned a hospital gown and was moments away from induced labor when she heard a woman in another room wailing in pain, NBC News reported Saturday.
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US Lawmaker Steve Scalise Showing Improvement After Baseball Field Shooting
Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday.
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US Lawmaker Steve Scalise Improving After Baseball Field Shooting
US Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House Republican, has shown improvement in the past 36 hours after being shot by a man who opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice earlier in the week, his lead surgeon said on Friday.
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Sextuplets Born In Virginia To Couple Who Spent 17 Years Trying To Conceive A Child
For 17 years, Ajibola and Adeboye Taiwo tried to have a child but had no luck.
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Arnold Palmer, 'King' of The PGA Tour, Dies at 87
Golf legend Arnold Palmer, known on the PGA tour as "The King", died on Sunday at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh
