Posts Tagged ‘medicine’
First penis transplant let’s patients go larger
Thomas Manning, 64, who lost his penis to cancer has received a penis transplant. If you could get one, would you go larger?
Relatives of the donor involved in the first successful penis transplant in the U.S. say they are opting to remain anonymous. Alexandra Glazier, CEO of the New England Organ Bank, says the family of the donor – who had died – is praying for recipient Thomas Manning’s continued recover. Glazier says the family indicates that Manning’s well-being is helping them cope as they mourn the loss of their loved one.
If you get a new penis, do you go for one larger than the one you had before, or is it just another organ, so you need a familiar fit?
Dead Russian man wakes in morgue – reaches for the vodka
To Russia, where a man who ‘died’ after drinking many shots of vodka is at the morgue. According to reports, medics in Khasanky, Russia,received a call from the man’s friends. The doctors arrived. They declared the man dead. They took him to the morgue and placed him in the freezer.
That night the local morgue was filled to its capacity, the bodies were not only on the shelves, but also on the floor of the freezer room.
A few hours later, the man awake from death. “It was very dark and cold and his brain was foggy due to the influence of alcohol,” adds Mr Stoyev. “In the darkness, he felt someone’s completely cold limbs and in fear rushed to the door.”
It as the lock-in to end them all.
Posted: 1st, January 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How to make a vagina capable of orgasm from a penis and testicles (video)
This video created by the European Society of Urology affords us an insight into male-to-female gender surgery. the process uses the penis and testicles to construct a vagina – one able to orgasm. The penis’s tip creates a neoclitoris. The labia is made form the skin of the scrotum and shaft.
Spotter: IFLS
Parasitic tapeworm with cancer kills man by cancer
This is an adult Taenia saginata tapeworm.
The 41-year-old Colombian man was HIV positive. What killed him, as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, was the cancer he caught from the parasitic tapeworm.
The US Centres for Disease Control and the UK’s Natural History Museum diagnosed the unusual type of cancer. Dr Atis Muehlenbachs, who discovered the oddity, says: “It didn’t really make sense… this had been the most unusual case”.
The tumours appeared to be normal and some were more than 4cm across and found in his lungs and liver. But after further inspection, the infected cells were found to be a tenth of the size of normal human cells. Molecular testing identified high levels of tapeworm DNA in the tumours. The patient was unable to be treated by the time doctors had identified what the tumours were. He died three days after the worm DNA was discovered.
The worm tissue came from the dwarf tapeworms, known as Hymenlopis nana, which is a specialism of Dr Peter Oslon from the Natural History Museum. He said: “It is able to carry out its whole lifecycle in one host and that is absolutely unique.”
And absolutely hideous.
Parasitic tapeworm with cancer kills man.
Posted: 5th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Man has ears cut off to look more like his pet parrots
Parrot fashion
Ted Richards has inked his face and eyeballs to look more like his pet parrots Ellie and Teaka. Last month he had his ears cut off. Those ears are now preserved in resin. To keep his glasses on, Ted has had transdermals inserted at the sides of his head.
“I think it looks really great,” he tells the Bristol Post. “I love it. It’s the best thing that has happened to me. I am so happy it’s unreal, I can’t stop looking in the mirror.”
Isn’t that what budgies do?
More photos here.
Posted: 18th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Woman accidentally glues eye shut with nail fixer; medic won’t treat her unless she pays
To Florida,where Katherine Gaydos has some dust in her eye. A neighbour with a leaf blower has jetted something sharp into her peeper. She asks a pal to run inside her home and fetch some Visine. The friend does so. They hand Katherine the bottle. She leans back and squirts the salve in. But it’s not Visine. It’s the stuff you sue to stick on false fingernails. It’s glue. Strong stuff.
“It’s stuck to my eyelids and my eyeball and it really hurts,” says Katherine. She calls 911. A doctors gives her a treatment.
Eight days later, the eyelid is still tightly shut. The doctor will only continue to treat her if she can pay.
“He was talking about doing surgery to try and save my eye, but now I don’t know what to do. I don’t have a job, no insurance or any money.”
Local news get wind of the story. The doctor not says he’ll do a deal. Says the patient:
“It was the same office, but a different doctor. He put Lidocaine above and below my eye and just pulled on it until it finally opened. He said I should get my sight back, and not have permanent damage.”
She has not been asked for payment.
Posted: 11th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Man sacked from pork roll factory for excessive farting and uncontrollable diarrhea
Louann Clem of Trenton, New Jersey, is suing her employer Case Pork Roll Co., for firing her husband Rich for excessive farting. The Clems told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), but they weren’t interested. Farters are not yet a recognised minority group.
So the Clems are suing. Their law suit says Rich’s gastric bypass surgery led to “extreme gas and uncontrollable diarrhea.” They allege company owner Thomas Dolan began giving them a hard time. The Clems say he told them:
“We have to do something about Rich. This can’t go on.”
“Why is Rich having these side effects?”
“Is Rich following his doctor’s recommendations?”
“We can’t run an office and have visitors with the odor in the office.”
“Tell Rich that we are getting complaints from visitors who have problems with the odors.”
The company’s owner says the Clems weren’t fired. They say the Clems refused a pay cut when the company’s fortunes declined.
We say, ‘What the hell are pork rolls made from?’
Spotter: MyCentralJersey.com
Posted: 2nd, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Watch: scientist hasn’t washed for 12 Years uses bacteria to ‘stay’ clean
American scientist Dave Whitlock says:
“No one did clinical trials on people taking showers every day. I have not taken a shower in 12 years.”
(Via Oddity Central):
….In fact, he says that the chemicals in our soaps and shampoos have destroyed all the friendly bacteria that once inhabited our skin and kept us clean.
Whitlock first started thinking about good bacteria when a woman he was dating asked him why horses liked to roll around in the dirt during summer.
No plumbing in the stable?
“The only way that horses could evolve this behavior was if they had substantial evolutionary benefits from it,” Whitlock explained. That’s when he realised that for the horses, this was actually a way of keeping clean.
Until then, no one had considered that skin bacteria was important and could be helpful to the body. “I didn’t have a biology degree – I wasn’t at an institution that was renowned for its biological research,” Whitlock said. “And I was proposing something completely off the wall.” But he went ahead and invented a one-of-a-kind spray – called ‘Mother Dirt AO+ Mist’ – consisting of ‘good’ bacteria.
Whether or not he scored another date is not known.
Posted: 12th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Woman has large horn growing out of her head (video)
To China, where Liang Xiuzhen of Sichuan sports a 13-centimeter by 6-centimeter horn. It’s not stuck on. It’s part of her.
The 87-year-old’s growth is known as a cutaneous horn. Made of keratin, the horn grew over a period of just two years from a small mole.
It might be an idea to get your new ‘beauty spot’ checked out…
Spotter: Zaeega
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Medics stitch man’s injured hand inside his abdomen (photo)
To save 87-year-old Frank Reyes’s left hand – damaged when it was trapped under a sun-heated car bumper as he was changing a tyre – medics stitched it to his abdomen.
Surgeons at Houston Methodist Hospital left Frank’s hand inside his abdomen for three weeks to reduce risk of infection and save his fingers.
A BOLD MOVE TO SAVE A MAN’S HAND: TUCKING IT INTO HIS TUMMY
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Shoplifter hid stolen meat in his colostomy bag (with mug shot)
To South Carolina, where “an older white male” has stolen $75 worth of ribeye steaks by secreting the meat inside his colostomy bag.
David Samuel Hoyt, 55, admitted the theft.
The steaks remain missing.
Posted: 14th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Sex: woman has 6 spontaneous orgasms every day in her foot
Do you suffer from Foot Orgasm Syndrome (FOS)?Dr. Justin Lehmiller reports on on those who endure /enjoy orgasms via their feet:
“Mrs. A” (as she is identified in the case report) was having 5-6 orgasms per day in her left foot that were very similar in nature to orgasms she had experienced through genital stimulation; however, they were typically a bit shorter than a vaginal/clitoral orgasm, lasting 5-6 seconds before cutting off abruptly. These foot orgasms occurred suddenly and spontaneously—no sexual desire or arousal necessary. In addition, while they originated in the left foot, the orgasmic sensations traveled to other areas of the body, including up the left leg and to the vagina, and she sometimes experienced vaginal lubrication along with these orgasms.
Read on: Foot Orgasm Syndrome: She Experienced 5-6 Orgasms A Day Originating In Her Left Foot
Posted: 11th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Belgian state agrees to kill depressed woman who failed at suicide
The story in Newsweek is headlined:
Healthy 24-year-old granted right to die in Belgium.
On what measure is a woman who wants to die healthy?
Newsweek reports:
Doctors in Belgium are granting a 24-year-old woman who is suffering from depression but is otherwise healthy the right to die as she qualifies for euthanasia under the Belgian law, even though she does not have a terminal or life-threatening illness.
Aside from the poor mental health the woman is healthy. Or to ou it another way, apart from the crippling illness the patient is perfectly fine.
The 24-year-old woman, known simply as Laura, has been given the go-ahead by health professionals in Belgium to receive a lethal injection after spending both her childhood and adult life suffering from “suicidal thoughts”, she told local Belgian media.
Laura has been a patient of a psychiatric institution since the age of 21 and says she has previously tried to kill herself on several occasions. She told journalists: “Death feels to me not as a choice. If I had a choice, I would choose a bearable life, but I have done everything and that was unsuccessful.” The date of Laura’s death is yet to be decided.
Belgium passed a law to legalise euthanasia in 2002, the second country in the world to do so after the Netherlands. The law states that Belgian doctors can “help patients” to end their lives if they freely express a wish to die because they are suffering from intractable and unbearable pain.
Do we understand her suffering?
Boy with pain in ear pulls out four-inch centipede (photos)
Grant Botti, 14, from Bryant, Arkansas, had a huge centipede in his ear. He didn’t know it was there until he felt some pain. He rubbed his ear. He felt something unusual. He pulled it. And out slid a 4-inch centipede.
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Posted: 2nd, July 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Cannabis oil: parents and cancer victims crimialzied for using medical marijuana
What would you do to help your ill child? Would you give her cannabis oil? Louise Bostock, 30, gave the tincture to her three-year-old daughter Jayla. The child suffers from epileptic fits. Mrs Bostock thought the cannabis oil would help. It did.
The Sun reports:
When Louise told nurses [about the oil], she was prevented from removing Jayla from Birmingham Children’s Hospital for five days while they did tests. She and site manager fiancé Charisma Agbonlahor… were told police would be called if they did not comply.
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Unconscious colonoscopy patient records medics mocking his penis
The man anesthetized for a colonoscopy in Reston, Virginia somehow managed to get his smartphone into the theatre and enable it to record the anesthesiologist and other medics insulting him. The patient says he pressed ‘record’ “to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.” But whn he saw the tape, he decided to sue. And he won. He’s been awarded $100,000 for defamation, $200,000 for medical malpractice, and $200,000 in punitive damages.
The Washington Post:
“After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op,” the anesthesiologist (Tiffany M. Ingham, 42) told the sedated patient, “I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit,” she was recorded saying.
When a medical assistant noted the man had a rash (on his penis, which he previously mentioned to the Ingham), the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get “some syphilis on your arm or something,” then added, “It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.”
When the assistant noted that the man reported getting queasy when watching a needle placed in his arm, the anesthesiologist remarked on the recording, “Well, why are you looking then, retard?”
…The discussion soon turned to the rash on the man’s penis, followed by the comments implying that the man had syphilis or tuberculosis. The doctors then discussed “misleading and avoiding” the man after he awoke, and Shah reportedly told an assistant to convince the man that he had spoken with Shah and “you just don’t remember it.” Ingham suggested Shah receive an urgent “fake page” and said, “I’ve done the fake page before,” the complaint states. “Round and round we go. Wheel of annoying patients we go. Where it’ll land, nobody knows,” Ingham reportedly said.
Ingham then mocked the man for attending Mary Washington College, once an all-women’s school, and wondered aloud whether her patient was gay, the suit states. Then the anesthesiologist said, “I’m going to mark ‘hemorrhoids’ even though we don’t see them and probably won’t,” and did write a diagnosis of hemorrhoids on the man’s chart, which the lawsuit said was a falsification of medical records.
More: Anesthesiologist trashes sedated patient — and it ends up costing her
Doctors find 50-year-old foetus inside 92-year-old woman
It was news to the 92-year-old Chilean woman that a 50-year-old foetus was inside her abdomen. The BBC says that after a fall, doctors x-rayed the woman. They found no broken bones – but they did discover a calcified fetus weighing 4.4 lb.
Inquisitr explains:
Known as a lithopedion, sometimes called a “stomach rock” or a “stone child,” this is a rare occurrence affecting just a few women. “Litho” comes from the Greek word that means “stone,” and the suffix “pedion” (also Greek) means “child.” This happens when the fertilized egg is implanted outside of the uterus (known as an ectopic pregnancy).
The medics did not remove the foetus.
Well, she’d not be the first woman to have a middle-aged man invading her personal space.
Posted: 24th, June 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Man with first penile transplant gets lover pregnant
The 21-year-old South African who became the recipient of the world’s first penile transplant is to become a father – at age 18 he was let with just 1cm of his penis after a circumcision. The “transplant worked” says Andre van der Merwe, the surgeon who helped perform the nine-hour transplant at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital.
Dr Van der Merwe tells the BBC:
“This is what we intended, that he should be able to stand up and be able to urinate and have intercourse, so it is a milestone for him.”
The jokes write themselves. But they would pale against the human ingenuity, which really is incredible.
Watch a man play the guitar as surgeons operate on his brain
To Brazil, where Anthony Kulkamp Dias is playing the guitar as surgeons operate on his brain. Doctors wanted to monitor Mr Dias’ cognitive functions during the surgery. Playing a guitar was his idea.
The 20-year-old strummed Yesterday by The Beatles and a tune he wrote for his young son.
Kulkamp Dias tells The Telegraph:
“I played six soongs at certain times. My right hand was a bit weaker because that was the side that they were operating on. So I stopped and rested. I was interspersing songs and talking with them… The doctors asked me to repeat one of the country songs, so I even had an encore.”
Spotter: NY Daily News
Posted: 5th, June 2015 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Robo-ass: Patrick gets his prostate examined hundreds of times a year
Meet Patrick, the “simulated patient that talks to medical students while offering real-time feedback about the virtual prostate exam he’s receiving.” Patrick is the voice of a robotic backside:
Medical Daily reports:
Patrick serves a dual purpose: personal and professional. Personally, he comes equipped with software that enables him to interact emotionally with the student and voice any concerns he has about the procedure. Dr. Benjamin Lok, one of the program’s designers, says the interpersonal relationship Patrick helps foster is invaluable from a practicing perspective. “This virtual human patient can talk to the learner, expresses fears and concerns about the prostate exam, and presents a realistic patient encounter,” Lok told Geekosystem.
The other purpose he serves is functional. Patrick is endowed with force sensors, which can alert the student when he or she is being too aggressive, and can report how thorough the student was in his or her examination.
“Consider this,” Lok said, “how would a medical student know if they are doing a good prostate exam? Currently it is impossible for the educator to gauge performance. This simulation provides performance, feedback, and an opportunity to learn and lower anxiety.”
File under: robots taking students’ jobs.
Via: Medical Daily and DM
Posted: 22nd, May 2015 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Belle Gibson doesn’t have cancer: magnetic therapists can be wrong
Belle Gibson does not have brain cancer. She never did. Belle Gibson is a “wellness blogger” who is very well indeed.
Gibson launched a global “lifestyle and wellness” business on the back of claims that her brain tumour was cured by natural therapies and vegetables. Now she says:
In an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly, Ms Gibson was asked if she had, or ever had cancer. “No. None of it’s true,” she told the magazine.
So. What about the money she’s earned? Says Belle:
“I don’t want forgiveness. I just think [speaking out] was the responsible thing to do. Above anything, I would like people to say, ‘OK, she’s human.’”
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German dentist removed all man’s teeth to cure erectile dysfunction
To Germany where a local dentist must pay 20,000 euros in compensation to the man who came to him seeking help for erectile dysfunction and schizophrenia.
Alex S said his teeth were “destroying the energy flows in his body”. The dentist didn’t question Alex’s mental capacity to self-diagnose. He just set about removing all 19 of Alex’s teeth. He then charged Alex 50,000 euros.
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Posted: 20th, April 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
End of Days: Girls born with twin fetuses
The Hong Kong Medical Journal reports that in November 2010 a newborn girl was born. Insider her were two 8 to 10-week-old fetuses. One weighed half an ounce. The other weighed a third of an ounce. Ech had four limbs, a spine, a rib cage, intestines, and an anus.
“Since it is impossible for the little girl to have conceived the pregnancy on her own, the fertilization of the twin fetuses, of course, belongs to her parents, which has gone to the wrong place,” a local medic tells the South China Morning Post.
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Posted: 10th, February 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
School bus driver accused of stealing books died after drinking witch doctor’s potion to prove innocence
“The driver was dared … to prove his innocence by drinking the mixture. The 33-year old collapsed and died immediately after the drink. Furious villagers then took revenge on school leaders by torching the school bus and the deputy director’s house.”
Posted: 23rd, January 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
That Headache Might Be A 4-inch Tapeworm Or 8 Maggots Eating Your Brain
That headache might not be a fatal, after all. It could be a 4-inch tapeworm living inside your skull.
Like the 4-inch tapeworm removed from the head of a 50-year-old British man. The 4-inch tapeworm spent four years moving from one side of the man’s brain to the other. It lived by absorbing nutrients. The tapeworm, you see, has no mouth.
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Posted: 25th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
