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Regent street hammer attacker jailed for 13 years after victims had fractured skulls

One victim received plastic surgery to cover a deep scar following the attack

Evening Standard · May 13, 2022

'Body doubles' believed to be on alert to stand in for Putin as he undergoes 'cancer surgery'

Obsessed with maintaining his 'strong-man' image, it is believed that body doubles have been put on standby for when the president undergoes surgery, according to a report

Irish Mirror · May 13, 2022

Mystery donor hands over £130,000 to fund woman's life-changing spinal surgery

Rachel Pighills, 35, suffers from a rare spine condition that could "internally decapitate" her at any moment

Manchester Evening News · May 13, 2022

Thousands of women to be offered new tablet for fibroids on NHS

Nice recommends alternative to injections or surgery for treating non-cancerous growths in womb

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022

Scots charity opens world's first children's operating room in Kenyan refugee camp

A SCOTTISH charity has opened a children's operating room in a refugee camp in Kenya in what is thought to be a world first.

The National (Scotland) · May 13, 2022

Joel Embiid: ‘Everybody expected the Houston James Harden, but that’s not who he is anymore’

Michael Scotto: Joel Embiid on James Harden: "Obviously, I'm sure since we got him, everybody expected the Houston James Harden, but that's not who he is anymore. He's more of a playmaker. I thought, at times, as with all of us, could've been more ...

USA Today Sports Media Group · May 13, 2022

‘I can finally breathe’: Healthy nurse has breasts and ovaries removed ‘to see her sons grow up’

Bristol mum-of-three Ruth Cookson, 34, lost her own mother in 1996, aged just 41, to breast cancer and is desperate to see her children become adults

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Paediatric operating room in Kenyan refugee camp officially opens

The facility was set up by the Edinburgh-based charity Kids Operating Room.

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Healthy mum chooses to have breasts removed so she can see her sons grow up

Ruth Cookson has a gene mutation that made her more susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer

Wales Online · May 13, 2022

Mum and son, 8, have same condition that plagues their body with tumours

Nathan was diagnosed when he was just nine months old and was forced to have surgery at two years old

Liverpool Echo · May 13, 2022