Man Has Toothpick Removed From Inside His Heart After Swallowing It While Drinking
A 29-year-old Chinese man can consider himself lucky to be alive after doctors removed a wooden toothpick stuck in the right atrium of his heart. The man, known only by his surname, Zhou, underwent an open-heart operation on January 9, at a hospital in Nanning, southern China’s Guangxi Province, to have an excessive growth removed from […]
Company Sells Sneeze-Contaminated Tissues That Allegedly “Help” People Get Sick
Most people would never use a tissue that someone else sneezed in, let alone pay $80 for one, but one Los Angeles startup claims to have already sold close to a thousand sneeze-filled tissues to people who want to catch a cold virus now so they don’t get sick with the same cold later. Does […]
Woman Lives With Plastic Pill Packaging Lodged in Her Throat for 17 Days
A woman in Northern Ireland lived with a plastic painkiller packet stuck in her throat for 17 days, after unknowingly swallowing it in the middle of the night. The 40-something woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, reportedly swallowed a Tramadol pill in the middle of the night, without first taking it out of its plastic packaging. […]
Doctors Remove Leech That Had Been Living in Woman’s Throat for Three Months
A 63-year-old Vietnamese woman who recently underwent a laparoscopic procedure to have a tumour from her throat removed was shocked to hear that the doctors removed a six-inch leech from her throat instead. The parasite had reportedly been living in the woman’s throat for about three months. The unnamed woman from Vietnam’s mountainous Ha Giang Province […]
Rare Condition Leaves Woman Unable to Hear Men’s Voices
A Chinese woman recently made the news after being diagnosed with a very rare form of hearing loss which leaves sufferers unable to hear low frequency sounds, like men’s voices. The woman from Xiamen, on China’s east coast, knew something was wrong when she woke up one morning and realized that she couldn’t hear anything […]
Ambrosia, the Controversial Treatment That Allows Older People to Fight the Effects of Aging with Young Blood
Blood transfusions have been used to save lives for decades, but now one startup wants to use the medical procedure to combat the effects of aging by injecting older people with young blood. The treatment is called “Ambrosia”, after the mythological food of the Greek gods, which granted whoever consumed it longevity or immortality. It […]
Wellness Guru Calls Looking Directly at the Sun a “Form of Free Medicine”
Australian celebrity chef and Instagram wellness guru Pete Evans has come under fire for saying that “sungazing”, the act of looking directly at the sun, is a one of the best forms of free medicine. “Every day I love to immerse myself in an experience within the cleansing ocean water as well as a brief […]
11-Year-Old Girl’s Inoperable Brain Tumor Miraculously Vanishes
Doctors at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin have been stunned by the unexpected recovery of an 11-year-old girl whose inoperable brain tumor miraculously disappeared. Earlier this year, Roxli Doss was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare and extremely aggressive brain tumor with a very low survival rate. It was well-incorporated into her brain stem, […]
Man Allegedly Develops Lung Infection by Constantly Sniffing His Dirty Socks
It turns out that smelling your own socks is not only gross but potentially deadly. A Chinese man was recently hospitalized with a severe pulmonary fungal infection, which he allegedly developed by constantly sniffing his used socks. When he was brought in to the No 909 Hospital in Zhangzhou, China’s Fujian Province, the 37-year-old man, surnamed […]
Man Endures 5 Years of Chemotherapy for Cancer He Never Had
A Colorado man claims that he was on intense chemotherapy and painkillers for five long years, after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer by multiple doctors, a cancer that he recently learned never existed. The living nightmare of James Salaz, a resident of Montrose, in Colorado, began five years ago, when he went […]
Man’s Presumed Brain Tumor Miraculously Disappears a Day Before Scheduled Surgery
A California man’s unexpected recovery has left doctor’s baffled. A day before his scheduled surgery to have a presumed brain tumor removed, a final head CT exam showed that the mass in his brain had miraculously disappeared. Paul Wood, a resident of Lodi, in California, started complaining of excruciating headaches and dizziness several months ago, […]
Woman Left with Paralyzed Fingers After Playing on Her Phone for a Week Straight
A Chinese woman recently found herself unable to use the fingers on her right hand after spending her entire week-long vacation playing video games on her smartphone. The unnamed woman from Changsha, in China’s Hunan province, reportedly took a week off from work and spent all that time playing on her smartphone. According to a […]
Unprecedented Medical Case Shows How Cancer Spread from Organ Donor to Four Recipients
An extraordinary and terrifying medical case revealed in the July issue of the American Journal of Transplantation proves that organ transplants can pass not only certain infectious diseases to recipients, but in rare cases, also cancer. Patients known to have malignant tumors are often not able to donate their organs, but that was not the case […]
Leech Larvae Hatches and Grows Inside Man’s Nostril for Three Months
A Chinese man recently had an inch-long leech yanked out of his nose after hatching and living there for at least three months. The man, surnamed Pan, went to Dongguan Chang’an Hospital, in China’s Guangdong province, after experiencing constant nose bleeds for 10 days. Liu Yuxing, an ear, nose and throat doctor at the hospital, immediately suspected […]
Vanishing Bones Disease – Mysterious Condition Causes Sufferers’ Bones to Slowly Disappear
Despite the amazing scientific advances we have made in the last century, there are still many medical cases that can’t be fully explained. Vanishing Bones Syndrome sounds like something straight out of an episode of House MD, but doctors at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in Scotland encountered a case of this bizarre condition in […]