As for the little Syrian girl who has survived a war and now open-heart surgery, she will need one more operation in about a year's time as her body grows.

CNN: Taking heart amid Syria's carnage

He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room.

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Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.

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