A pair of 25-year-old twins from Yunnan have successfully received the first round of their female-to-male gender reassignment surgery at Shanghai's No. 411 Hospital of People's Liberation Army. They are now seeking to be the first twins in the country to officially change their gender. more ›

Ouch. A boy was rushed from Jiaxing in neighbouring Zhejiang province to Shanghai Children's Hospital with a pair of scissors lodged in the side of his head. Surgeons at the hospital successfully removed the scissors in a four-hour operation Sunday evening and the boy is now in stable condition. Shanghai Daily with the details: more ›

"LOCAL hospitals said a pilot program that encourages organ donation after cardiac death should greatly benefit patients with organ failure. However health authorities should work out a practical system to carry out the program which began this month. According to the Ministry of Health, all big hospitals qualified to do organ transplant can apply to provincial health bureau for a one-year license to perform organ transplant after a donor's cardiac death. Hospitals that performed more than ten transplants within one year can apply for a long-term license from the Organ Transplant Committee. Doctors said the practice can increase the number of organ transplants by seven times in China." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Dai Longquan, a 19-year-old man from Jiangxi Province is currently recuperating at Renji Hospital after having a 28cm drill bit removed from his brain by surgeons. He was adjusting the drill when a tiny little accident happened — the bit shot into his right eye socket and was embedded 18 centimetres into his brain. By the time Dai was rushed to the hospital, he was already in a critical condition and was lapsing into a coma. Doctors made two small openings on each side of his brain and not only removed the bit (three centimetres of which had been bent into a right angle), but also saved his eye. more ›