Erika Hernandez, the recipient of a donor heart that was dropped while being transported to hospital for transplantation by two paramedics, was discharged from hospital following a successful heart transplant.

Dante Autullo couldn't believe it when doctors told him he had a 7.62 cm nail lodged in his brain. The 32-year-old Chicago builder thought that he had only been grazed by a nail when a nail gun that he was holding accidentally went off.

A 76-year-old British woman who swallowed a pen 25 years ago has finally had it removed.

A Dannevirke father of three was told that his stomach pain was possibly due to a past hysterectomy.