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Surgeon General appeals to Kylie Jenner to tell her millennial followers to stay at home

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The Surgeon General appealed to Kylie Jenner on Thursday morning to tell her millennial and Gen Z followers to stay at home and stop going to beaches as the country frantically tries to fight coronavirus.  In an appearance on Good Morning America, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the country needed social media influencers like Jenner … Read more

Top surgeon tests positive for coronavirus and may have infected hundreds of patients

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Fears for hundreds of vulnerable patients as top surgeon fails to self-isolate after catching coronavirus on skiing holiday in Italy and ‘health professional’ at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital contracts killer virus By Connor Boyd Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 13:35 GMT, 10 March 2020 | Updated: 13:58 GMT, 10 March 2020 Fears hundreds of … Read more

Girl, 14, becomes first NHS patient to have her spine straightened by a robot surgeon

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A teenager has become the first NHS patient to have her spine straightened with pioneering robotic surgery. Emma Mayamine, 14, was diagnosed four years ago with scoliosis, a condition in which the spine starts to grow unevenly and curves to one side. Scoliosis is thought to affect thousands of people in Britain, including Princess Eugenie. … Read more

Violinist and brain surgeon reunite after he removed her tumour without destroying talent

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The strains of George Gershwin’s Summertime float down the busy corridors of King’s College Hospital in London as violinist Dagmar Turner delivers a near-perfect performance. For a follow-up medical review, it’s rather unorthodox. But consultant neurosurgeon Professor Keyoumars Ashkan listens with rapt attention and delight. The last time he heard Dagmar play this aria was … Read more

Malika Haqq reveals she is ‘fully booked for my post pregnancy makeover’ with plastic surgeon

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‘Fully booked for my post pregnancy makeover’: Khloe Kardashian’s BFF Malika Haqq visits plastic surgeon while in her third trimester By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 22:32 GMT, 25 February 2020 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 25 February 2020 Malika Haqq has already planned her post-pregnancy snap-back. The best friend of Khloe Kardashian, who is due … Read more

Pig hearts could be adapted for human use ‘within three years’, according to pioneering surgeon

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Pig hearts may be adapted for human use within three years in a breakthrough move that could clear the UK donor list, a leading surgeon has said. Sir Terence English, who performed Britain’s first ever successful heart transplant, said his mentee from the 1979 operation will try to replace a human kidney with a pigs … Read more