February 9, 2016 Behind man's 5-day bout of hiccups: a tumor When a 35-year-old man went to the hospital twice in a matter of weeks for "intractable" hiccups that lasted more than two days back in 2014, he was given an antipsychotic drug that has helped relieve symptoms in similar patients.
February 8, 2016 Aspiring model's rare and incurable condition doubles size of one leg A 24-year-old woman from Minneapolis is firing back at bullies by speaking out about a rare inflammatory condition she’s hid from the world since she hit puberty.
February 4, 2016 Parents often won't take surrogate kids with defects, expert says CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A newborn Down syndrome baby left by his Australian biological father with his poor surrogate mother in Thailand was one of several cases of surrogate children abandoned because of defects, an expert told a parliamentary inquiry on Thursday.
February 2, 2016 Georgia mom starts nonprofit after 3 daughters diagnosed with rare blood disorder The Tyler sisters, of Hampton, Ga., are close in age, but the childhoods they’ve led aren’t typical for that of an 11-, 10- and 6-year-old.
January 27, 2016 What it's like to adopt a baby who's going to die When Cori Salchert and her husband Mark of Sheboygan, Wis., adopted a baby in 2012, it was under unusual circumstances.
January 26, 2016 British mother dies of brain tumor after doctors misdiagnose her with depression A British mother misdiagnosed with depression reportedly died Sunday night after a brain tumor claimed her life.
January 21, 2016 Over 1K people help raise nearly $36G for boy with rare condition A rare condition is robbing a Texas fifth-grader of his ability to speak, but an online community of supporters is rallying around him to help him get his voice back.
January 8, 2016 Heart surgeons use Google Cardboard to save baby's life Thanks to a simple cardboard contraption and an innovative set of surgeons, a Minnesota baby born with only one lung and half a heart is expected to make a full recovery from surgery after doctors initially told her family her situation was helpless.
January 7, 2016 Tumors force 11-year-old boy to undergo mastectomy After Lewis Deakin, an 11-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, had several benign tumors grow in the arteries of his chest thanks to a condition called arteriovenous malformation, he became the first child in the country to undergo a mastectomy—and he's taking it all in stride.
December 31, 2015 Surgeons remove 21-inch hairball from girl's stomach An 11-year-old in Kazakhstan is on the mend after surgeons removed a hairball that filled her stomach and extended more than 13 inches from the organ.