Month: June 2015

Josie and Maria Alvarez, Lori and Dori Schappel and Laleh and Ladan Bijani were all conjoined twins. Doctors have operated to separate them.

Incredibly complex surgeries are involved to separate conjoined twins and they do not always go as might be desired.

Rasmussen’s Encephalitis is a rare and deadly brain disorder. Young Cameron Mott needs radical brain surgery to try and save her life.

A Hemispherectomy is drastic brain surgery to remove the diseased half of the brain and will be performed by Dr. George Jallo.

At the age of just three, Budhia Singh was running 20 miles a day. His coach, Biranchi Das is determined to make him a world-class athlete.

Child exploitation or healthy encouragement. It is a fine line which Biranchi Das is deemed to have crossed.

Marc Yu is an incredibly gifted musician who demonstrated his propensity for music from a very early age. But is he a born genius or is his gift acquired.

Researchers and psychologists have pondered the question from many angles in an attempt to come up with the answer.

Momo syndrome is an incredibly rare disorder causing abnormal weight gain. It is not known if Momo syndrome is a life-limiting condition.

Archie Thompson was born with a perfectly natural birth weight but by the age of two weighed six stones.

Primordial Dwarfism affects only one in three million children. Alex is small, very small but unlike other forms of dwarfism perfectly proportioned.

Worldwide there are less than a hundred cases of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. But, what makes children born with this condition so extraordinary is that their bodies are proportional but tiny.

The remarkable and sad story of Adana Forsyth the butterfly girl born with the incurable Epidermolysis Bullosa condition.

Despite the best endeavours of scientists in Dundee, Adana sadly passed away in November of 2008.

The 7-year-old child prodigy from India shows remarkable intelligence and a flair for medicine. Will Akrit Jaswal find a cure for cancer?

Mentored by Professor Mustafa Djamgoz and Mr Anup Patel this precocious child may be a genius but is he a medical miracle?