Amazing Medical Stories

Leg rotation; prosthetic face; intestinal defect; tapeworm.

Man with a rebar in his head; nasal hemangioma; larynx transplant; major medical mistake.

Flesh-eating bacteria; Crouzon syndrome; a cement-mixer accident; brain surgery; a baby has four legs.

Inexplicable cramps in a young man's arm lead to a brain malfunction with no known cure.

A birthmark-turned-tumor costs Ricardo his nose, but doctors plan to install a prosthetic replacement; an electrocution survivor gains a bionic arm.

Woman suffering chronic thromboembolic disease; twin offers to donate skin grafts for her 6-year-old sister's burn wounds.

Jeff Cross, 28, is living on borrowed time because of a rare genetic illness that prevents the liver from breaking down a crucial protein.

Skin grafts and an unconventional body-pouch save the life of a firefighter; regaining the use of one's legs.

Multiple surgeries for gunshot wounds; autoimmune disease; birth defects challenge development of a young man's legs.

A new procedure helps a man with Tourette's syndrome.