Hip op that gives you perfect pins
Patients given a new form of hip replacement joint are less likely to be left with legs of differing lengths

Breast cancer surgery in your lunch break
A new machine that cuts out tumours within minutes means women can have surgery to remove lumps from their breasts in a lunch hour. All that's left is a four-millimetre wound which heals quickly and leaves no scar

Can looking in a mirror cure agonising pain?
The pain in her left leg was so terrible that Suzie Knight begged her doctors to amputate it, but they repeatedly told her she was imagining her agony. Then a trainee GP suggested she may be suffering from a rare condition that affected the pain pathways in the brain

Amazing story of the baby born with three arms
A new born baby in China has astounded doctors after being born with two left arms. Doctors at Shanghai Children's Medical Centre are considering surgery options for the two-month-old boy. See the video footage

Scandal of dead bodies left on hospital ward in funding crisis
Dead bodies are being left on hospital wards overnight because of a shortage of night porters to move them to a mortuary, it has emerged. Nurses at a hospital in Lancashire have been told dead patients cannot be moved until the following day because of a funding crisis