Transplantation medicine

Shades of Frankenstein emerged on the international medical scene this week after the announcement that a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, is volunteering to become the first human to undergo a …head transplant – that means cutting off the head and attaching it to another body!

People were moved by the sad story of pensioner John Jukes, aged 70, who was mugged and robbed of money he was saving for a trip to Greece as a break from chemotherapy. The cancer battler/survivor received a flood of donations to help make his dream come true. People not only donated to help get John and his wife to Mykonos and Santorini but also left kind words.

By Lina Giannarou

Plastic surgeon dr Antoan Dajoub for "Blic" I've done facelift and hair transplantation for Gadaffi

Professor dr Antoan Dajoub, respected plastic surgeon who came to live in Novi Sad in Serbia because of the ongoing war in Syria, was a member of the medical team who done facelift and hair transplantation procedure for Muamar Gadaffi.

A new stem cell transplantation centre opened on Monday in the St. Marina hospital in Varna, reports the bTV national channel.

It is the most up-to-date in Bulgaria and is expected to partially solve the shortage of such treatment of patients with oncological diseases.