A 21-year-old man in Tianjin has had his penis cut off after what appears to be a botched circumcision procedure just two weeks before his wedding ceremony. 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 ›

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Talk about overkill. After contacting an online agent, on April 28, a 17-year-old high school freshman from Huaishan, Anhui had his kidney removed for 22,000RMB. The student, surnamed Zheng, claimed he wanted to buy an iPad 2, but could not afford it. He thus decided the best course of action was to sling his innards on the black market. more ›

Hou Gouzhu, now 11 years old, had half of his skull removed as a child because of Rasmussen’s Encephalitis. Two years ago, when he was 8, photos of him and his father splashed across Chinese and international media. He was quickly dubbed "half-brain boy" and many felt sympathy for the son and his father, who said they had spent every penny they owned on Hou's medical treatments, and couldn't even afford the ticket back to their home in Shandong province. Since then, donations have poured fourth and Hou was able to undergo cosmetic surgery. He was fitted with a skull made of titanium mesh, effectively giving him half his head back! more ›

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We all know that many things are on the rise in China; the economy, the population, foreign TV series, and if the last few days are anything to go by, the temperature! Something else on the rise, however, is... wait for it, ‘Hymenorrhaphy’. The surgical reconstruction of the hymen. more ›

Sometimes, when we're perusing Shanghai Daily's website, we find stories that are almost too ridiculous to mock. Seriously, how do you even begin to write creatively about a woman who wants a facelift so she can look like Jessica Alba? We suppose the facts will do: Xiaoqing, a goodhearted, obsessive Chinese girl, broke up with her boyfriend last month, and wants him back. The twist? He was so enamored with Jessica Alba that he made poor Xiaoqing wear a wig and makeup to look like her all the time, even when she slept. more ›

...two abandoned conjoined twin girls who will undergo separation surgery tomorrow at Shanghai Children's Hospital. Six-month-old Sui Jianshuang and Sui Jianlian are connected from the chest bone to the stomach for 15cm. They share a liver, but each has her own heart, lungs, kidneys and digestive system, making the chances of surviving a separation surgery better. The girls were abandoned outside an orphanage in Guangdong province, which then contacted Shanghai Children's Hospital about the possibility of surgery late last month. The hospital agreed to take on the case, and have also issued a country-wide alert for the parents to come forward. "We want their parents to show up so they can have a real family," a hospital official said. Awwwww! Source: Shanghai Daily more ›

• Somebody from ABC News has offered up her ways to see Shanghai on a "shoestring." Classic offenders Yu Yuan, Xintiandi and Nanjing Road are there, but what do you think of her other ideas? [ABC News]
• Roots & Shoots have told us that the Linkin Park concert did a little more good than just rockin' out the populace. 7RMB from tickets sold in Shanghai and Macau were donated to the charity's Million Tree Project - resulting in 6,597 trees to be planted next April.
• Zhang Ziyi was hanging out in our fair city yesterday to help launch the Omega 2009 Constellation watch collection at SOGO. She got the opportunity to "delve deeply into her fascination with watchmaking." Zhang! We never knew you loved to tinker! [Vialuxe]

We just read an article about a woman who sued a boob job clinic after they tried over fifty fruitless times in the last year to enlarge her breasts. On the basis of this deplorable record, Ms. Zhao decide to sue the clinic, and she won. The general rule in Chinese law is 1+1 compensation — meaning that if you spend 4800RMB, as Ms. Zhao did, that you get 9600 RMB as compensation. For Ms. Zhao, all's well that ends well, but the more we searched for similar stories, the more we got the feeling that this was just the very sensitive tip of a dark and sinister iceberg of fraudulence. 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 ›

Shanghai-based Canadian documentary photographer Ryan Pyle informs us:

It appears that Li Guoxing, the first recipient of a face transplant surgery in China as been confirmed dead. Li Guoxing received a face transplant surgery in 2006 from surgeon Guo Shuzhong in Xi'an, China. If you can remember Mr. Li, 30 years old when he had the surgery, had is face ripped off by a bear while hunting in rural Yunnan province where he lived in a small village community. Mr. Li's death, it has been said, was due to an infection because he wasn't taking prescribed immune-system drugs properly. Another report says he was favoring herbal medicines instead. No final report on the death will be available because Mr. Li has been buried for several months now, and no autopsy was completed. more ›

According to China Daily, more and more middle and high school students are taking advantage of the summer holidays to make the kind of changes that will impress their peers come fall. But it isn’t a summer class or even a new workout routine they are adopting — it’s cosmetic surgery. more ›

A little girl from Hunan province born with her heart outside of the body and rib cage has come to Shanghai for medical treatment. The congenital defect, known as ectopia cordis, is extremely rare. In China, only two cases have been recorded and worldwide, over 200. The girl's heart is protected by only a layer of skin and nothing else, and we imagine that sleeping in any other position than on her back would be life-threatening for her. The girl has just received treatment in Shanghai, and the surgery has been said to be successful. Unfortunately (and as usual), no other details were given. more ›