Man Almost Asphyxiates to Death After Accidentally Swallowing Car Key
A Saudi man had to undergo laparoscopic surgery to unblock his airway after he accidentally swallowed his car key while playing with it. A medical team at a hospital in Saudi Arabia’s coastal Al Qunfudah governorate has been praised for saving a man’s life by extracting his car key from his respiratory tract. Just how […]
Woman with Chicken Bone Stuck in Throat Dissolves It by Drinking Coke
A New Zealand woman who had a small chicken bone lodged in her throat claims that she was prescribed an interesting remedy by an emergency room doctor – lots of Coke. Beth Brash recently sat down with New Zealand magazine Stuff to tell the unusual story of how she managed to get rid of the […]
Woman Goes Viral for Promoting Tree Hugging as a Form of Therapy
A Shanghai woman has become famous in her home country for promoting the physical and psychological benefits of hugging trees. Qishishiqi hugged her first tree back in April, while out on the tow with her husband. Feeling a little tipsy, the woman hugged a random tree on an empty street in Shanghai and immediately felt […]
Rare Condition Makes 23-Year-Old Man Look Like 13-Year-Old Boy
23-year-old Luiz Augusto Márcio Marques stopped growing after undergoing a surgical procedure to remove a very rare and aggressive tumor. Today he looks like a 13-year-old boy. Luiz, who is better known as Guto in his native city of Passo Fundo, in Southern Brazil, had a perfectly normal life until the age of 7, when […]
Real-Life Groundhog Day – Rare Condition Causes Man to Live the Same Day on Repeat
A rare condition called déjà vécu has been causing an 80-year-old man to perceive every event in his life as a previous experience, similar to the time loop described in the movie Groundhog Day. Can you imagine watching TV and seeing the same thing over and over again, or trying to read a new book […]
Man Has Silver-Plated Grillz Stuck in His Lung After Accidentally Swallowing Them
A 22-year-old man from Wisconsin who started experiencing coughing and heavy wheezing after an epileptic seizure was shocked to find that his silver grillz had become stuck in one of his lungs. A case study recently published in the Cureus Medical Journal tells the story of an unnamed 22-year-old man who, after recovering from an […]
Kambo – The Controversial Healing Ritual That Could Potentially Kill You
Kambo is an ancient Amazonian ritual that involves putting the poisonous secretions of a frog into your body for a supposed detoxifying and health-boosting effect. Named after the poisonous, waxy substance harvested from the backs of giant monkey frogs found throughout the Amazon, Kambo has always been a controversial cleansing ritual because of the severe […]
Doctor Shares Shocking X-Ray of Man Full of Tapeworm Eggs
A Brazilian doctor recently shocked millions on social media by posting an X-ray of a man suffering from cysticercosis whose body was riddled with calcified tapeworm eggs. Last month, Doctor Vitor Borin de Souza, a resident at the Hospital das Clínicas in Botucatu, Sao Paulo, posted an X-ray of a patient on Twitter to show […]
Woman Has Been Living with a Painful Needle in Her Belly for 11 Years
A Colombian woman has spent the last 4,000 days of her 39-year existence in excruciating pain because of a surgical needle forgotten in her belly after an operation. María Aderlinda Forero’s decade-long nightmare began in 2012, soon after the birth of her fourth child. The housewife, who lives in the village of San Isidro, in […]
Rare Hyperinfection Leaves Man With Worms Crawling Under His Skin
A Spanish sewer worker developed a roundworm infection so bad that doctors could see the larvae crawling right under his skin. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the unusual case of a 64-year-old sewer treatment employee from Spain who realized that something was wrong with him after experiencing mild diarrhea and itching all […]
Man Exercises 8 Hours a Day for 20 Years, Now He Can’t Walk
A 60-year-old man who used to work out for 8 hours a day, walking, jogging, and doing hundreds of situps, developed severe degenerative arthritis and is barely able to move because of the pain. They say too much of a good thing is usually bad for you, and apparently, exercise is no exception. Chinese newspaper […]
Man Is Living Underwater for 100 Days to See How It Affects His Body and Mind
A Florida University professor plans to spend 100 days 30 feet under the ocean’s surface, in an underwater lodge, as a scientific experiment to find out how the constant increased pressure affects his body and mind. The current world record for time spent living underwater was set in 2014 by two Tennessee biologists who managed […]
This Vibrating Smart Pill Could Be the Future of Constipation Tratment
Vibrant is a smart ingestible capsule that vibrates inside your intestines to mechanically stimulate the colon and increase the frequency of bowel movements without the use of drugs. No one really likes talking about it, but chronic constipation is a serious health issue of our time. Either because of age-related issues, questionable lifestyle choices, diet, […]
Tech Entrepreneur Spends $2 Million a Year to Regain His Youth
A 45-year-old American tech-mogul claims that he spends around $2 million a year bio-hacking his body into regaining its youth. First of all, if you’re younger than 35, you should know 45 isn’t that old, especially by modern standards, but Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur who once sold his payment processing company Braintree Payment Solutions […]
Man Severs Neck Artery, Suffers Three Strokes After Turning Head Too Quickly
A Missouri man can consider himself lucky to be alive after he ruptured a neck artery and suffered three strokes because of turning his head too quickly during a game of pickleball. Joel Hentrich, a 35-year-old “super-fit” man from Festus, Missouri suffered the freak accident in November of last year. He and some friends were […]