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<p>This is just unbeleivable! Please read before viewing picture - it's worth it!</p> <p>A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.</p>

Houston, TX (LifeNews.com) -- A surgery performed on an unborn child that is the first of its kind has saved the baby's life. Just three weeks before his due date, a tumor took over two-thirds of his chest, cramping his lungs so much that they would not have been able to expand after his birth and his stomach would fill with fluid as his heart failed. But Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye was able to perform a surgery on Garrett Jorgensen, who is now three weeks old that saved his life. Olutoye, a pediatric surgeon known affectionately as "Dr. O" at the...

Deadly hernia corrected in womb Surgeons have developed an operation to repair a potentially fatal abnormality in babies before they are born. Some babies develop a hole in their diaphragm which leads to their gut or liver moving into their chest, and squashing their lungs. The new operation, pioneered at London's King's College Hospital, has reduced death rates in the most at risk by 50%. Details are published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The condition, known as a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), is a relatively common foetal abnormality - occurring in about one in every 3,000 pregnancies. It...

"The Hand That Touched The World" Nearly Four Years Later It was the "hand of hope," a photo of an unborn baby's hand, that made its way around the world within days of appearing in USA Today. Taken by Michael Clancy, the color photo showed Samuel's tiny hand grasping a surgeon's finger during in utero surgery. See story, page 9 about Samuel's visit to a Senate Committee hearing. Photo above by John Imbody A Flash of Life Special to NRL News by Jonathan Imbody Flashing an impish grin, three-year-old Samuel Armas quickly ducked behind a chair as a photographer tried...

Hollywood, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Three-year-old Angeline Marie is spending some time in "the thinking chair" this week at preschool and her mother couldn't be prouder. "She getting a time-out now at school—which is something we never thought we'd have to worry about," says her mother Emily Gonzalez-Abreu. Angeline Marie was diagnosed with spina bifida when Gonzalez-Abreu was 16 weeks pregnant. When the perinatologist gave Abreu and her husband the news, "He said, ‘you do not want to have this child…she's going to be like a vegetable.' " With spina bifida, which the Spina Bifida Association of America estimates affects...