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China
Chinese man relieved of dice stuck in his nose for 20 years
A 23-year-old man in Xian, China, recently found relief from chronic sneezing and nasal congestion after doctors discovered and removed a di...
Ryan General
Entertainment
Taiwanese star Vivian Hsu undergoes thyroid cancer operation
Taiwanese singer-actor Vivian Hsu recently opened up about undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the 4...
Bryan Ke
Home
Shohei Ohtani ready for spring training after shoulder surgery
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani will be ready for spring training following a successful shoulder surgery. In a statemen...
Lil Tay ‘doing better’ after surgery for ‘extremely rare’ heart tumor
Social media personality and musician Lil Tay, who made headlines last week after undergoing an open-heart surgery, has been moved out of th...
Lil Tay undergoes open-heart surgery a year after death hoax
Seventeen-year-old rapper Lil Tay, whose real name is Tay Tian, successfully underwent an open-heart surgery for a heart tumor days after he...
Chinese woman demands justice after secret surgery video goes viral
A woman in China discovered she was secretly filmed during a breast enlargement surgery when she saw herself in a widely circulated video on...
Michelle De Pacina
Olivia Munn undergoes hysterectomy to fight breast cancer
Olivia Munn has shared updates about her battle with breast cancer, including undergoing a hysterectomy in April. Key points: ...
Health
Indian painter gets brain-dead woman’s hands in rare bilateral hand transplant
Doctors in Delhi, India, successfully performed the city’s first bilateral hand transplant on a 45-year-old painter who lost both hand...
Doctors remove 300 kidney stones from woman who drank bubble tea instead of water
Doctors in Taiwan had to remove over 300 kidney stones from a 20-year-old woman who suffered chronic dehydration from drinking sweetened dri...
News
Vietnamese man experiencing severe headaches for 5 months discovers chopsticks in his brain
A 35-year-old man in Vietnam who experienced severe headaches for five months was shocked to discover a pair of chopsticks lodged in his sku...
Culture
World’s first openly gay prince says his parents sought brain surgery to make him straight
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, India’s first openly gay prince, has accused his parents of attempting to force him to undergo brain surgery a...
Carl Samson
Crime
Colorado surgeon acquitted of homicide in teen’s death from botched breast surgery
The Colorado plastic surgeon charged in the death of a teenage patient after a failed breast augmentation surgery was acquitted of negligent...
Sri Lankan man breaks Guinness World Records for largest, heaviest kidney stone
A retired soldier from Sri Lanka had a record-breaking kidney stone surgically removed. Coonghe’s massive stone: On June 1, Dr. Kugadas Suth...
Beauty
Japanese mom has her 9-year-old daughter undergo double eyelid surgery to be ‘beautiful’
Rucchi, one half of a mother-daughter YouTube duo, paid thousands of dollars to have her 9-year-old daughter Micchi undergo double eyelid s...
Parents in China shave their heads, donate scalp tissue to help son recover from severe burns
A Chinese mother and father shaved their heads to donate scalp tissue for their infant son after he was badly burned by a burst water heate...
Rebecca Moon
Family Demands Answers After Baseball Pitcher Dies From ‘Routine’ Surgery, GoFundMe Created
A grieving family is seeking answers over the death of a college baseball player from Maryland who died after undergoing surgery to mend an ...
Chinese Actress Reveals ‘Rotting’ Nose from Cosmetic Surgery That Put Career on Hold
Chinese actress Gao Liu shared images of her damaged nose resulting from a botched cosmetic procedure. Liu was doing well in her career and ...
Doctors in India Remove Over 500 Teeth From 7-Year-Old Boy’s Mouth
Oral surgeons and pathologists at Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai, India were shocked to find more than 500 teeth inside a m...
Some Asians Want This Painful Leg-Lengthening Surgery to Be Taller and It Shows
If you’re frustrated with your height, there is now a procedure that can be done to make yourself taller. The surgery has a three to s...
Kimberly Nguyen
Daniel Wu Almost Dies After His Appendix Ruptures
“Into the Badlands” actor Daniel Wu had a close call with death after his appendix ruptured, he revealed last week. Wu began vom...
Leanna Chan
Drunk Man Wakes Up to Find His Penis CUT OFF
A man in southern China woke up from a hangover to a living nightmare as he realized that his penis had been cut off. The man, surnamed Tan,...
Technology
China Just Completed Its First Successful Robotic Surgery
A hospital located in Anhui, China just performed its first successful robotic surgery on a patient suffering from numbness in his legs and ...
Asia
Celebrity in Singapore Plans to Sue South Korean Clinic for Botched Plastic Surgery
Singapore-based Malaysian celebrity hairstylist Addy Lee is reportedly planning to sue the people responsible for his botched plastic surger...
3-Year-Old Chinese Girl May Be the World’s Youngest Breast Cancer Survivor
Yan Yan, a 3-year-old girl from Shandong province, China, was recently saved after an early detection and treatment for breast cancer. It wa...
British K-Pop Fan Spends $100,000 on Surgeries to Look Like BTS’ Jimin
A British man has forked over nearly $100,000 to look like one of the members of K-pop mega group BTS. ...
Khier Casino
South Korean Man’s Arm Amputated After Infection From Eating Sushi
An elderly South Korean man had his forearm amputated after being infected by a life-threatening bacteria that he acquired from eating raw s...
Filipino Boy With Deformed Knees Gets Life-Changing Surgery at Tim Tebow’s Clinic
An 11-year-old Filipino boy born with severe leg deformity may soon be able to walk properly without pain thanks to a hospital that supersta...
Surgeon in China Gets Injected with Pain Killers for Appendicitis WHILE Performing 9 Surgeries
A Chinese doctor has earned massive praise from millions of netizens for displaying selfless dedication in fulfilling his duties while suffe...
Japanese Cosplayer Buys ‘Confidence’ With $64,000 of Plastic Surgery
A Japanese cosplayer shocked her followers after undergoing a massive transformation with the aid of a healthier diet, exercise, and over 7 ...
Baby Born With Three Legs Undergoes Complex 10-Hour Surgery in China
An 11-month-old baby in China recently underwent a complicated surgery for almost 10 hours to remove an extra leg he was born with. Baby Xia...
He Had 30 Plastic Surgeries to Become a ‘Korean’ Star in Thailand
Editor’s Note: This article has been edited to correct the man’s initial “before” picture which was of Vietnamese vl...
Penis Whitening is Now a Trend in Thailand
You don’t have to go far to whiten your penis, but a clinic in Bangkok, Thailand has gone viral for offering patients a cosmetic procedure t...
Girl in China Needs Skull Surgery After Trying to Remove Blackhead
A 10-year-old girl from Guangzhou, southern China, reportedly went through an open brain surgery to get a part of her skull removed after ge...
Thai Makeover Show Gives Man With Disfigured Jaw the Most Epic Transformation
A TV program in Thailand recently gave a male factory worker a total makeover, transforming him into a man even his own mother did not recog...
Hong Kong Doctor Leaves Liver Transplant Patient Cut Open For Hours to Go to Another Hospital
A surgeon at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong reportedly left his liver transplant patient who was already cut open on the operating table f...
Women in Thailand Are Now Getting $1,500 Surgery for ‘3D Vaginas’
A surgical procedure that promises fuller, plumper and younger-looking vaginas has gone viral on Thai social media. Word started spreading w...
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