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In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers reported Wednesday, reports AFP. 

Some 88.7 percent of Turks are happy about their physical appearance, according to a survey research undertaken by the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.

A diamond ring swallowed by an Irish tourist in a botched robbery attempt in Turkey's southwest was removed from the man's body with a surgical procedure on Oct. 6.

A cross-liver transplant surgery in Istanbul bestowed a fresh start in life to Turkish and Ukrainian families.

Turkey is among top three countries of the world in kidney and liver transplants from live donors, Turkish Transplant Coordinators Association head Yavuz Selim Çınar said on July 4.

According to the NHS, your Body Mass Index (BMI) should sit somewhere between 18.5 and 24.9. Anything over that, and you're overweight.

So something's gone seriously wrong when you're just 14 years old and your BMI is a whopping 100.

The Treaty of Bulgaria with "Eurotransplant" was canceled but will be extended to 2-3 weeks. This was announced by the Executive Director of the Transplantation Agency Mariana Stoyanova and just a day earlier the Health Ministry announced that "Bulgaria has a contract with Eurotransplant, it is not interrupted and Bulgaria continues to be a member of the organization".

(CNN) - The world's first successful total penis and scrotum transplant was completed at Johns Hopkins Hospital on March 26, according to a news release issued Monday.

The Mexican Senate approved a reform of the health system, according to which any deceased adult automatically becomes a potential donor. "The decision on the reform of the general health care law in its organ donation section was adopted by 75 votes in favor, with no one against and one abstaining," the senate said in a Twitter statement.

Doctor Vicentiu Saceleanu, the chief of the Neurosurgery Section of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital (SCJU) in Sibiu, was awarded again at the PRO INVENT International Research, Innovation and Inventions Salon in Cluj-Napoca, for discovering a new osteosynthesis material, designed for patients who need repair of cranium defects, according to a press release sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday.