At one point in her life, Amber Pearson spent 8 hours a day acting out her obsessive thoughts. She washed her hands until they bled, repeatedly checked the locks on her doors and ate separately from her family due to an intense fear of food contamination.Pearson, 34, has OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, that neither therapy nor medication could remedy.
The world's second pig heart transplant recipient has died six weeks after having the organ implanted, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Tuesday. The patient, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette a Navy veteran and retired lab technician at the National Institutes of Health only began showing signs that his body was rejecting the pig heart in the few days before his Oct. 30 passing.
Vickie Thompson had only a few blissful hours with her newborn son, Charlie, when the seemingly impossible revealed itself: he was born without an anus.
Mom of triplets Dee Michelle, 26, a hair care specialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, took to TikTok to reveal that she and her partner, Antonio Livingston, 29, unwittingly became pregnant with two additional babies while pregnant with their first child in 2020.