FALL RIVER — A feel-good story with a shocking angle goes viral, gets millions of likes and shares, and captures the public’s attention. Then like any viral infection, eventually it burns out. This ...

Last week Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass., whom the Massachusetts Medical Society quizzed as a result of the publicity given him for his operation on Alice Jane (“Upside-down ...

A Feb. 23 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) by The Other 98% includes an image showing an upside-down U.S. flag draped alongside a mountain. “National Park Service rangers have pulled off a ...

In August 1941, a rare operation was performed in Richmond to “straighten out the upside down stomach of a two-month-old baby girl.” The Medical College of Virginia (MCV) performed the surgery which, ...