Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Photo: Doctors remove unborn baby who grew on twin sister's back

 
They were supposed to be born as twins, but instead, one twin grew inside her sister’s body with one arm coming out from the back.

This gruesome case left the medical world stunned. An 11 year old, was admitted to a hospital in China, with a third arm growing from her back.

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Baby who was born with HIV believed to be cured after doctors treated her immediately following her birth

This undated image provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2005 Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatric HIV expert at Johns Hopkins' Children's Center. A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment - in this instance, four hours after birth. Doctors revealed the case Wednesday at an AIDS conference in Boston. A host of sophisticated tests at multiple times suggest the LA baby has completely cleared the virus, said Persaud, who led the testing

A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment — in this instance, four hours after birth.
Doctors revealed the case Wednesday at an AIDS conference in Boston. The girl was born in suburban Los Angeles last April, a month after researchers announced the first case from Mississippi.