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Home, after 8 months in a coma

Metro | Health
2011-9-9

A YOUNG man who had been in a coma for more than eight months after being hit by a car was discharged from a Shanghai hospital yesterday afternoon. Fan Zhigang, 18, had woken from his coma in the No. 3 People's...

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Bittersweet dog bite aftermath

Metro | Health
2011-9-8

LYING on a hospital bed, the seven-year-old boy whose eyelid was bitten off by a stray dog last Saturday is now recovering after surgery that saved his left eye, but his parents still cannot cheer up. The family...

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Woman lends an ear ... to a centipede

Metro | Health
2011-9-8

LOCAL doctors received quite a chill when they helped remove a 5-centimeter centipede from the ear of a young woman on Tuesday evening. The woman claimed the animal may have entered her ear canal while she was...

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Doctors find 5cm centipede in woman's ear

Metro | Health
2011-9-7

LOCAL doctors found a 5-centimeter centipede in the ear of a young woman yesterday evening. The woman said the animal may have entered her ear tract while she was talking on a phone. The woman surnamed Zhu...

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Doctor saves life of woman on plane

Metro | Health
2011-9-7

A female passenger likely would have lost her life on a flight to Shanghai if not for a helping hand lent by a doctor. The 56-year-old woman suffered a heart attack on the flight from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province,...

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Separated twin girls doing well

Metro | Health
2011-9-6

FOUR-MONTH-OLD con-joined twin girls were separated successfully yesterday after a nearly seven-hour surgery at the Shanghai Children's Medical center. The two, nicknamed An An and Xin Xin, meaning safe and relieved...

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Twins successfully separated

Metro | Health
2011-9-5

FOUR-MONTH-OLD conjoined twin girls were successfully separated this afternoon after six hours of surgery at Shanghai Children's Medical Center. The two, nicknamed An An and Xin Xin, meaning safe and relieved...

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Ride against smoking

Metro | Health
2011-9-5

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Hospital VP axed after ER fire, death

Metro | Health
2011-9-3

THE vice president of a Shanghai hospital was sacked and the president was given an administrative warning after a patient was abandoned by surgeons and died when thick black smoke engulfed the operating room. The...

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Baby gets dad's liver after legal delays

Metro | Health
2011-9-3

A five-month-old girl, who for weeks had been denied a liver transplant because of a hang-up over paperwork confirming her father's paternity, finally received the organ surgery at a local hospital yesterday. The...

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20 get food poisoning at funeral dinner

Metro | Health
2011-9-2

MORE than 20 people who attended a big village funeral dinner became sick after eating unhygienic dishes - with six sent to a Pudong hospital on Wednesday night. Diners had symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and...

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Toothpaste, soap stir health concern

Metro | Health
2011-9-2

THE local quality watchdog said yesterday that it is closely watching a US study on an active chemical in a range of consumer products, including soaps and toothpaste, that is prompting safety concerns. Some best-selling...

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It's all in the family; transplants save boy

Metro | Health
2011-9-2

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Wang Cheng has recovered from a normally fatal blood disease after receiving transplanted umbilical cord blood from his brother and stem cells from his father. The boy was discharged from Shanghai...

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Shanghai moms pretty happy

Metro | Health
2011-9-1

SHANGHAI mothers are the third-happiest moms on the Chinese mainland, after those in Yunnan Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to a survey about pressure from work, life and child raising. The...

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Girl covered with moles gets first surgery in city

Metro | Health
2011-8-31

A five-year-old girl with a very rare skin disease leaving black moles covering much of her body received plastic surgery in the city yesterday - with a planned 20 years' worth more to come. The girl will receive...