The C-section is now the most performed surgery in the U.S. The number of cesarean sections performed in the United States has risen from 4.5 per cent of childbirths in 1965, to 31 per cent today. This surgery was originally only performed in situations where the mother and baby were in danger. This surgery can cause unnecessary complications.
It has also caused a steep rise in medical bills, for one because they require longer hospital stays. And childbirth accounts for a huge portion of the country’s health care expenditure. Read more…
Nicholas Holderman, 20 months, was playing at home with his two elder brothers when his parents heard his screams from the next room and knew that something was very wrong.
Somehow he managed to fall on to his parents’ car keys, one of which pierced his eyelid and penetrated deep into his brain. Today, the 20-month-old US tot has amazed doctors by making a full recovery.
The human body never ceases to amaze me:
A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday little more than a month after surgeons there successfully removed her extra limbs.
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Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in her mother’s womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped twin.
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Lakshmi’s parents said they were taking her back to their rural village in eastern Bihar state where she had been revered by some as an incarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess she was named after.
Wow, I guess neither does other culture’s beliefs. Read more.
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