Afghan boy, 9, out of critical-care unit after heart surgery in Toronto
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TORONTO (CP) - A nine-year-old Afghan boy who had life-saving heart  surgery at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is out of the critical-care unit, a hospital official said Monday.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----       Clinton Out of Intensive Care       Former President Bill Clinton was moved from intensive care to a hospital room Wednesday as he continued his recovery from quadruple bypass surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in New York City.      A statement issued by Clinton's office said the 58-year-old former president walked with assistance, sat up in bed and sat in a chair, the Associated Press reported...
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A 17-year-old who survived in her car for eight days after it crashed down a ravine has returned home following a complex operation. Her doctors say she should make a full recovery within months.
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Three and a half months after Travis Marcusâ rapidly failing heart brought him near death at Arkansas Childrenâs Hospital, the 14-year-old walked out the hospitalâs front door Thursday with his new donor heart.
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Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas &#151; the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a newly developed miniature heart pump.
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An athlete from the Central African Republic is released from the hospital Saturday, one day after he was briefly knocked unconscious in an Olympic taekwondo bout.
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He was 17 and terrified. The Taliban had indoctrinated him well. Nothing we do in Afghanistan will stop people like Farhad
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A 10-year-old Afghan boy saved from death after being airlifted to Canada for emergency heart surgery has flown home with a new lease on life.
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An ailing 9-month-old boy whose mother sneaked him out of a hospital to prevent doctors from performing court-ordered surgery may live with his father until permanent custody is decided, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 82, left hospital on Sunday after heart surgery, ending about a month in intensive care.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been moved from a hospital's intensive care unit as he recovers from a heart attack, officials said Friday.
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A 10-year-old girl is critically ill after being hit by a bullet while attending school in Gaza, Palestinian security and hospital sources said.
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TORONTO - A US soldier who walked out on the 82nd Airborne Division and fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq is seeking refugee status.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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KOTA BARU: A 10-year-old boy from Kampung Belian, who has been in quarantine at the hospital here since Monday, is the only one in his family with bird flu-like symptoms.
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'He is stable now. He experienced chest pain due to exertion and high blood pressure but that has now been brought under control through medicines,' a doctor said.q
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Six Afghans, including two women and a child, were wounded, the head of a local hospital said on Sunday, after a military operation supported by Western air power in southern Afghanistan.