PHOTO: Baby Born With Two Heads

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A baby born with an extra head is recovering this week in Afghanistan after undergoing a risky procedure to have the head removed.
Only a few months old, Asree Gul was discharged from a hospital in eastern Afghanistan after doctors successfully removed the extra head from her scalp, reports the BBC.
Born to farmers in the Chaparhar district, Asree also has a twin sister, who was delivered without complications. Asree’s unique condition, however, made it difficult for her to sleep.

The hospital’s chief surgeon, Ahmad Obaid Mojadidi, told the Agence France-Pressethat the complicated operation performed on Chaparhar was the first of its kind in the region.

PHOTOS: The Man With Nose On His Forehead & Reason

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After his nose was damaged, then infected and deformed, this Chinese man has had a new one artificially grown on a rather unusual place.
The 22-year-old man, identified only as 'Xiaolian,' damaged his nose in a vehicle accident back in August 2012, but decided not to seek medical treatment. An infection then gradually corroded the cartilage, and, when Xiaolian finally went to see a doctor, it was too late: the surgeons were helpless.
There was no other choice left but to grow a new nose to transplant it, replacing the damaged one.
The surgeons placed a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian's forehead, cutting in into the shape of a nose and supporting it by cartilage taken from his ribs.

PHOTOS: Tree Man ‘Grows Roots’ On His Body

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An Indonesian man whose body is covered with extraordinary tree-like growths has spoken of his hope that an American doctor will cure his unique condition and help him rebuild his family life. 

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty “roots” began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident. Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been unable to look after his two children Entang and Utis, who are now aged 16 and 18.

First Woman to Receive Womb Transplant is Pregnant

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The first woman to receive a uterus from a deceased donor is pregnant following a successful embryo transplant - The Telegraph

Mrs Sert became the first woman in the world to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor in August 2011

Derya Sert, 22, was revealed to be almost two weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilisation at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey's southern province of Antalya.

Her doctor, Mustafa Unal, said in a written statement: "She is doing just fine at the moment."

Mrs Sert was described as a "medical miracle" when she became the first woman in the world to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor in August 2011 at the same Antalya hospital.

The news of her pregnancy will rekindle hopes for thousands of childless women across the world who are unable to bear their own babies.

Mrs Sert was born without a uterus, like one in every 5,000 women around the world. Her doctors waited 18 months before implanting the embryo to make sure the foreign organ was still functioning.

Hers was the second womb transplant to be performed in the world, the first being in Saudi Arabia in 2000 from a living donor. It failed after 99 days because of heavy clotting. Doctors had to remove the organ.

The baby is expected to be delivered via Caesarean section and the uterus removed from Mrs Sert in the months following the birth to avoid further complications and the risk of rejection.

The young woman had started to menstruate after the transplant, which her doctors had said was an important signal that the womb was functional.

However, experts have warned that the pregnancy carries several health risks to the mother as well as to the baby, including birth defects due to the use of immunosuppressive drugs as well as pre-term delivery.