Timothy Wright, 61 year old Gospel singer and pastor, remains in critical but stable condition at a Pennsylvania hospital and will undergo surgery, to repair a fractured jaw, on 17th July 2008, according to his spokesman. He also suffered a fractured ankle, leg, neck and ribs.

Pastor Timothy Wright was severely injured in a horrific car crash on July 4 that killed his wife Betty Wright, 58, and 14-year-old grandson, D.J. Wright.

Pastor Timothy Wright has still not been told that both his wife Betty Wright and grandson D.J. Wright have died.

All his five sons are said to be waiting till the pastor’s condition improves before breaking the tragic news about his beloved wife and grandson.

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Dr. Michael DeBakey, the pioneering heart surgeon who is renowned for his procedures developing bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died at the age of 99.

Houston’s Methodist Hospital officials said DeBakey died of natural causes. They gave no additional details.

In Feb 2006, DeBakey underwent surgery, that used a procedure that he invented, for a damaged aorta.

“Dr. DeBakey’s reputation brought many people into this institution, and he treated them all: heads of state, entertainers, businessmen and presidents, as well as people with no titles and no means,” said Ron Girotto, president of the Methodist Hospital System.

“He has improved the human condition and touched the lives of generations to come.”

Dr. DeBakey is a pioneer in the development of artificial hearts, heart pumps, and other medical tools.

The famed doctor also assisted in the design of several surgical instruments as well.

DeBakey’s first wife, Diana Cooper DeBakey, died of a heart attack in 1972. Three years later, DeBakey married a German film actress, Katrin Fehlhaber.

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“Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie, the US man was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery, has given birth to a healthy baby girl.

The birth, at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, was natural.

Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy, attracted worldwide attention in April after revealing his pregnancy.

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My Shocking Story - The Man with no face was shown on Singapore Channel 24 Arts Central.

51 year-old Jose Mestre, from Lisbon, Portugal, has been losing his face to a massive growth, distorting it out of recognition for the past 35 years.

The tumour on Jose Mestre’s face is a vascular malformation, a collection of blood vessels that have expanded, producing a raised red area on the skin. It’s now about 33cm long and weighs around 3kg.

Surrounded by a loving family, it seems incredible that he has not been treated and his face was allowed to grow so big as he is a Jehovah’s Witness and his religion denies him to have blood transfusions.

Jose Mestre went on a trip to London to seek medical advice for one last chance to stop his face from suffocating him. He will go through a series of tests, consultations, and meet other patients with a similar affliction.

Doctors from London assured Jose Mestre that surgery can be carried out without blood transfusion. He finally agrees to the surgery, much to the delight of his sister.

Jose Mestre’s dream is to live a long and normal life.

I hope his dream will be fulfill. God Bless Jose Mestre.

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International football star Ronaldo had a fight with 3 prostitutes he brought back to his Brazil motel room after he discovered they were actually men.

Police became involved when an “altercation” happened as the 31-year-old A C Milan striker came to the shocking realisation that the call girls he had paid to have group sex with after his night out were in fact transvestites.

Ronaldo went into hiding Tuesday after a run-in with cross-dressing prostitutes that prompted police to investigate whether to charge one with trying to extort money from the soccer star.

The AC Milan player, in Brazil recovering from a knee surgery, canceled two TV appearances, and local media said he will continue physiotherapy at his home.

Police said Ronaldo committed no crime, but he was accused by one prostitute of using drugs and not wanting to pay.

Prostitution is legal in Brazil.

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