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Heartwarming moment a runaway dog tracks down cancer-stricken owner in hospital

CCTV captured the amazing footage of this little schnauzer strolling through the doors of a hospital and searching the halls for her best friend. This plucky pooch was on a mission to find her owner, Nancy Franck, who was being treated for cancer, and had already been  at the Mercy Medical Centre for two weeks following surgery. Proving that a dog really is man’s best friend, this audacious canine set off on the mirraculous journey to find her ‘mum’ on Saturday. Nancy’s husband Dale had assumed that Cissy had run away for good when he found that she had gone missing, but his heartache wasn’t to last long as he was told that their beloved dog had tracked down her best pal and turned up at the hospital. Dale said: "I thought she just wanted to go someplace, but I didn’t know where and she had never run away before.” Cissy’s visit was not just a surprise to her owners, but also came as quite a shock to the staff of the hospital. Mercy security officer Samantha

Baby Born Pregnant With Her Own Twin Siblings

A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant's case. The baby's condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It's not clear exactly why it happens. "Weird things happen early, early in the pregnancy that we just don't understand," said Dr. Draion Burch, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Pittsburgh, who goes by Dr. Drai . "This is one of those medical mysteries."  The doctors who treated the baby girl wrote that rather than a teratoma, the tiny fetuses may instead be the remains of sibling twins that were absorbed during the pregnancy. During surgery, which was done when the girl was about 3 weeks old, the surgeons discovered two fetuses between her liver and her kidney. One fetus weighed 0.3 ounces (9.3 grams) and the other 0.5 ounces (14.2 grams) — corresponding to about 8 and 10