Woman gives birth the same day she discovers that she is pregnant

A woman named Linda Ackley, living in Michigan, gave birth to a healthy 10-pound girl last friday. She found out that she was pregnant the day she delivered her baby. She thought she couldn’t bear children after an infection and abdominal surgery two years ago.

Chinese Baby Born With 16 Toes

The little boy has eight toes on each foot and five fingers on each hand but no thumbs on both hands. The condition is a rare genetic one known as polydactylism. The boy's father said that surgery will be done to remove the extra digits.

Mysterious Illness Causes Woman To Grow Fingernails Instead of Hair

Shanyna Isom, a high school graduate working towards geeing a law degree is suffering from a strange illness that causes fingernails to grow out of her hair follicles. The illness is believed to be an allergic reaction to the steroids given to her for an asthma attack. Doctors said she produces 12 times the number of skin cells per hair follicle, which suffocates her skin so her skin follicles produce human nails instead.

Shanyna Isom before the illness

Pictures of her skin as a result of the illness

46-Year-Old Man Cured Of HIV

The fact that Timothy Brown is a reasonably healthy 46-year-old is no small thing. Only a few years ago, he had AIDS.

"I feel good," Brown told ABC News. "I haven't had any major illnesses, just occasional colds like normal people."

Brown is the only person in the world to be cured of AIDS, the result of a transplant of blood stem cells he received to treat leukemia.

"My case is the proof in concept that HIV can be cured," he said.

Brown got lucky. The blood stem cells he received came from a donor with a special genetic mutation that made him resistant to HIV. The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races. Before Brown got his transplant in 2007, doctors tested nearly 70 donors for this genetic mutation before they found one who was a match.

But doctors hope that a similar solution could help other people with HIV: umbilical cord blood transplants.

Dr. Lawrence Petz, medical director of StemCyte, an umbilical cord blood bank, said although Brown was cured by his transplant, the process was complicated because the blood stem cells came from an adult donor.

"When you do that you have to have a very close match between donor and recipient," Petz said. "With umbilical cord blood, we don't need such a close match. It's far easier to find donor matches."

But it's still not that easy. Petz and his colleagues have tested 17,000 samples of cord blood so far, and found just 102 that have the genetic HIV-resistant mutation. The team performed the first cord blood transplant on an HIV-infected patient a few weeks ago, and they have another transplant planned for a similar patient in Madrid, Spain, later this year. It will still be months before researchers can tell if the transplants have any effect on the patients' HIV.

Petz also noted that transplants aren't performed solely to treat AIDS. Patients who get them have an additional condition that requires a blood stem cell transplant. Curing their AIDS would be an incredible bonus.

"It can be done. It's just a matter of time," Petz said.

Brown had his transplant in February 2007. Today, his body shows no signs of the virus.

Brown said he feels guilty being the only person to have been cured of the virus when millions still live with it. But he hopes his story will inspire others that a cure is possible.

"I don't want to be the only person in the world cured of HIV. I want a cure for everyone," he said.

Culled from: yahoo

Mysterious Disease Turns Young Boy Into Skeleton

 
A Saudi Arabian newspaper, Sabq Arabic language daily, published pictures of the boy suffering from a strange disease that has caused him general weakness and continuous loss of weight and his temperature goes up sharply while he gets infections from time to time. He has been bed-ridden at a hospital in the southern town of Abha. The boy, whose age was not specified is the only male in the family after the death of his father. He has five sisters who are married and live far away from their village although one of them often comes to help his mother look after him. Doctors have told his aging mother that he needs to be transferred to a specialized hospital to diagnose his disease and find a treatment but the mother objected on the grounds that she is "much worried about him".

Doctors Remove Four Extra Limbs From Six-Legged Baby

It was earlier reported that a baby was born in Pakistan with six legs, four of which were inherited from a parasitic twin (which didn't develop properly). See the full gist here.
But today, four of the six legs have been removed after a team of five doctors performed an 8-hour long operation.


The surgery was reported to be a success.
See the full story here

Six-Legged Baby Born in Pakistan

The one-week-old boy is believed to be one of parasitic twins. His conjoined twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs, said Jamal Raza, the director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi. He added that the baby did not have six legs, but rather two legs and that the other four legs belonged to the other twin.

Source: Dailymail

Fabrice Muamba Discharged From Hospital

The Bolton Wanderers midfielder, Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed during the first half of Bolton's FA Cup quarter final at Tottenham on March 17, has been discharged from the London Chest hospital. The 24-year old's heart stopped for 78 minutes as medics battled to keep him alive which caused the match to be abandoned.

Mother Finds Stillborn Baby Alive in Morgue 12 Hours After Being Pronounced Dead

The mother, Analia Bouter was just 26 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to the child prematurely at a hospital in Argentina. Unfortunately, the medical staff informed her that the baby was born with no vital signs and she went home with a death certificate.
But when Mrs Bouter and her husband went back to see their baby's body which was kept in a refrigerated drawer at the morgue, they heard a cry when the drawer was opened and voila the baby was alive. The baby reportedly spent twelve hours in the drawer.


For more information, check here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128032/Analia-Bouter-finds-stillborn-baby-ALIVE-morgue-12-hours-pronounced-dead.html

This one na confirmed miracle.

10-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth To a Healthy Baby

A 10-year-old girl from colombia is probably the world's youngest mother after giving birth to a healthy 5-lb baby through C-Section. The girl is a member of the country's Wayuu tribe, which is allowed by the government to carry out certain cultural practices which apparently includes procreating at a very young age. The girl was reportedly 39 weeks pregnant when she arrived at the hospital. It is also learnt that she refused to breastfeed her baby.


The girl has refused to reveal the identity of the father of the baby.