Doctors Remove Over 200 Stones from Woman’s Body in a Single Operation
Surgeons at Guanji Hospital, in Hezhou, China, recently spent six hours removing over 200 stones from a woman’s gallbladder and liver, some of them the size of small eggs. The patient, a 45-year-old woman known only as Ms. Chen, had apparently been experiencing abdominal pain for over a decade. When she first went to a hospital […]
The Curious Case of a Boy Who Stops Breathing Every Time He Falls Asleep
Liam Derbyshire was born with a very rare congenital disease that causes him to stop breathing every time he falls asleep. Doctors told his parents that he wouldn’t live past six weeks, but the boy has defied the odds and will soon turn 18-years-old. Liam suffers from a condition known as central hypoventilation, or “Ondine’s Curse”, […]
Surgeons Find 27 Contact Lenses in “Forgetful” Woman’s Eye
Can’t find your contact lenses? They’re probably still in your eye sockets. Someone should have probably told this to a 67-year-old woman from the UK who has forgotten a whopping 27 contact lenses in her eye, over the last 35 years. The bizarre discovery was made last November, when the unnamed patient came to the […]
Malaysian Chiropractor “Fixes” Slipped Spinal Discs by Knocking Them with a Hammer
Suffering a slipped or herniated disc is no joke. It can be excruciatingly painful and, in severe cases, it requires spine surgery and months of recovery. But for one chiropractor in Malaysia, fixing a slipped disc is as easy as knocking it back into position with a hammer. Md Rosdi Hasan has a very unconventional way […]
23-Year-Old Man Stuck in the Body of a 13-Year-Old Boy Due to Rare Condition
A lot of people look younger than their age, but 23-year-old Tomislav Jurčec, from Zagreb, Croatia, is an extreme case. Due to a fault in his pituitary gland, which controls growth and ageing, he remains stuck in the body of a 13-year-old kid. Tomislav admits that looking 10 years younger than his actual age does have […]
Woman with Two Skin Tones, Two Immune Systems Is a Living, Breathing Medical Oddity
Taylor Muhl, a model and singer from California, often says that she is her own twin, and as strange as that sounds, she means it quite literally. The 33-year-old was diagnosed with genetic Chimerism, an extremely rare condition explained as “an organism composed of cells from different zygotes”. As a child, Taylor was obsessed with twins, constantly […]
Biotech Company Wants to Bring Brain-Dead People Back to Life
Bioquark, a biotechnolgy company from Philadelphia believes brain death is not as irreversible as most people think, and claims to have come up with a series of injections capable of “resetting” the brain, essentially bringing patients back to life. Up until a few years ago, a person was declared dead when their heart stopped beating […]
Woman Who Broke Her Neck Sneezing, Five Years Ago, Does It Again While Laughing
One morning, in 2011, Monique Jeffrey, of Rose Bay, Australia, was at home, in her bed, checking her emails. She sneezed and her head suddenly jolted forward, collapsing the C1 and C2 vertebrae in her neck. She had broken her neck in what experts called a “freak accident”, but the chances of something like this happening […]
Thai Hospital Provides Masks for Women Too Shy to Get a Potentially Life-Saving Pap Smear Test
The gynecology ward at the Nong Krot Hospital, in Thailand’s Kamphaeng Phet province, looked more like a masked ball hall a couple of days ago, as both patients and staff wore masks to conceal their faces. The initiative was meant to make women more comfortable about getting a pap smear test. Named after its inventor, Greek doctor […]
Rare Condition Allows Woman to Remember Everything She Has Ever Experienced
Can you imagine being able to remember every single experience of your life, every conversation you have ever had, every meal you’ve eaten, every word in your favorite book and even the feel of the clothes you wore on your very first birthday? That’s what Becky Sharrock’s life is like, and as amazing as that ability […]
UK Gym Introduces Napping Exercise Classes to Combat Exhaustion
Climbing into a bed and just dozing off for 45 minutes doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you’d expect to be doing in a gym, but one UK fitness club claims that its “napercise” classes can help exhausted parents better deal with their hectic daily lives by regenerating the mind, body and even burning a few […]
7-Year-Old Boy Suffering from Rare Condition Runs Triathlons to Stay Alive
Jake Vella suffers from a rare hormonal condition that causes him to rapidly gain weight despite eating healthy and doing regular exercise. There is nothing anyone can do to stop the weight gain, but in order to stop the process and stay alive, the 7-year-old boy competes in triathlons. Jake’s parents first noticed there was something […]
Bosnian Woman Cleans People’s Eyes by Licking Their Eyeballs
Hava Celebic, an 80-year-old woman from the Bosnian village of Crnjevo, claims to be somewhat of a miracle worker. She is allegedly able to clean people’s eyes of various debris using only her tongue. Celebic, who is known as “Nana Hava” in her home village, says she learned the bizarre medical procedure a long time ago, from another […]
Adult Wrapping – The Japanese Therapy Craze That Recreates the Comforting Feeling of a Womb
Otona Maki, or ‘adult wrapping’, is a Japanese therapeutic method of correcting posture and alleviating body stiffness by wrapping the human body in a large piece of cloth that emulates the comfortable feel of a mother’s womb. Well-known for their long work hours, many Japanese people develop posture problems and body stiffness. For a long time, […]
The Tragic Case of a Woman Who Is Allergic to Virtually Everything, Including Her Husband
29-year-old Johanna Watkins suffers from an extremely rare condition which makes allergic to literally hundreds of things, including the scent of her husband. For the past year, she has been living alone in a specially-built “safe zone” of her house, and claims that every times she leaves this space her body “goes into attack” mode. […]