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Life Imitates Seinfeld: Ne-Yo And Mary Hart’s Voices Can Give You Seizures

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“I’LL be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on,” says Zoe Fennessy, 26, of Nottinghamshire. Every time she hears singer Ne-Yo’s voice she suffers an epileptic seizure.

 “It’s the same with most shops. I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don’t have Ne-Yo on. If he ever releases a greatest hits album it’s going to be a nightmare. Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run. People might think it is funny – and I can laugh at it myself – but it has taken over my life. It’s ruined my life.”

Zoe…had her first seizure on New Year’s Day in 2006 after a long period of sickness and doctors put it down to tiredness and stress. But when her seizures increased to six a DAY her GP booked her in for a brain test and doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy in 2008. But it wasn’t until she heard Ne-Yo’s ‘Give Me Everything’ featuring Pitbull – which topped the charts in May 2011 – that she had her first music-induced seizure.

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Posted: 14th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Photos Of Unusual Brains Left Behind In A Mental Hospital

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WHEN patients at the University of Texas Mental Hospital died, their brains were removed.

In the 960s, they were stuffed into jars and stored. And forgotten.

Photographer Adam Voorhes and journalist Alex Hannaford recorded the organs drenched in formaldehyde for his book Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital

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Posted: 12th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Hospital Employees Get Stuck In An MRI Scanner After Oxygen Cylinder Mishap

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“THIS is really an unfortunate incident,” says Plastic surgeon Dr Vinay Jacob. “Thankfully, we were able to successfully rescue both our staff members and provide them timely treatment. We have already launched an internal inquiry to ascertain what went wrong.”
The two staff members Sunil Jadhav, 28, and Swami Ramaiah, 35, employees at Tata Memorial Hospital’s cancer treatment and research centre in Khargar in Navi Mumbai, India.

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Posted: 12th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


How To Squeeze A Spot Without Damaging Your Skin

EVER wondered how to best pop a spot? No. You don’t just shave them off as former Anorak writer used to.

 

 

The corect technique is now demonstrated by Dr Mehmet Oz, on the Oprah Winfrey show.

You should not pinch the zit. You should fetch a pin, clean it with booze and skewer the thing.

 

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“Never squeeze a pimple because you will macerate it. You’re destroying all the healthy tissue with the pressure you are putting on there by squeezing. Place the needle parallel to the skin – rather like you would skewer something – and pierce the skin from one side to another. Then rip up!”

Acne sufferers swear by it:

"Thank you, Doctor! Everyone used to stare at my zits but now they're too scared to look."

“Thank you, Doctor! Everyone used to stare at my zits but now they’re too scared to look.”

 

And if you want to know about black heads, brace yourself…

 

Posted: 3rd, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Is Nothing Safe? 3ft Long Lungfish Removed From Man’s Anus

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IS Nothing Safe? A 3-feet long lungfish has become stuck up a man’s anus.

The Metro reports:

Graphic footage has emerged of the procedure which shows medical professionals pulling the Lungfish from a Brazilian man’s backside. The eel-like fish had venture so far up that it had become lodged in the patient’s bowels. People can be heard laughing and gasping in amazement as the operation nears an end.A number of people have phone cameras out at the ready to capture the moment the creature is pulled free.

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Posted: 30th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


A Lovely Time-Lapse Video of Braces Straightening Teeth

Video: time-lapse of braces straightening teeth:   Spotter: The Kid Should See This

Posted: 30th, October 2014 | In: Technology | Comment


Dying Staffordshire Man Told By 999: ‘Call Back If You Fall Unconscious’

AT the inquest into the death of Mark Hemmings, 41, the court heard that he had called 999 for an ambulance. The despatcher at the West Midlands Ambulance Service refused to send help. They told Mr Hemmings that his agonising gallstones should be treated in an out-of-hours surgery.

For seven minutes he pleased for an ambuilance. Three times the despatcher refused. The call was recorded so we know he was told this:

“You could try a warm bath, hot water bottle in the painful area but if you collapse, become unconscious, unresponsive, faint, or become pale, cold or clammy it’s 999.”

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Posted: 19th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Man Turns His Amputated Leg Into A Floor Lamp

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THERE’S no arm on Leo Bonten’s lamp. But there is a leg. His leg.

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Posted: 26th, September 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Are Anti-Depressants Over-Prescribed?

 A mentally ill man sits alone in the dayroom inside Idaho's maximum security prison south of Boise, Idaho, Jan. 24, 2007. He is one of many of Idaho's mentally ill sent to the prison for treatment because there is no where else for him to go. He is too sick to be treated as an outpatient and too dangerous for lower-level security hospitals. (AP Photo/Troy Maben)

A mentally ill man sits alone in the dayroom inside Idaho’s maximum security prison south of Boise, Idaho, Jan. 24, 2007. He is one of many of Idaho’s mentally ill sent to the prison for treatment because there is no where else for him to go. He is too sick to be treated as an outpatient and too dangerous for lower-level security hospitals. (AP Photo/Troy Maben)

ARE anti-depressants over-prescribed.

Stephen Lawrie, Head of the Division of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuro-Imaging, Director of PsySTAR at University of Edinburgh, takes a view in The Conversation:

There is a persistent media hype surrounding the notion that the prescription of antidepressants is “at record levels”, and “on the rise”. Yet numerous studies have shown that most people with depression do not get any treatment. How can both be true?

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Posted: 13th, August 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Hospital Nightmares: Nurse Tries To Remove Healthy Eye Instead Of Prosthetic One

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TO Småland, where an experienced nurse is attempting to remove a patient’s prosthetic eye for cleaning.
It won’t budge. She reapplies the suction machine. But again the eye is stubborn.
Of course, she is attempting to remove the patient’s one good eye, which is n ow not as good as it once was.

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Posted: 15th, June 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Liverpool: The Unluckiest Man In The City Is…

WHO is the unhappiest man in the Liverpool?

The Liverpool Post leads with the poor unfortunate.

 

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No. Not him.

HIM!

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The Royal Liverpool Hospital has “apologised unreservedly”. They are conducting an – get this – internal investigation.

Ouch!

 

Posted: 6th, May 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Doctors Successfully Create And Implant Working Lab-Grown Vaginas For Women (And Men)

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PSST! Want to buy a vagina? Four women born with an underdeveloped or absent vagina have been living with artificial ones for the past four years. The women suffer from Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH).

* Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a disorder that occurs in females and mainly affects the reproductive system. This condition causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent. Affected women usually do not have menstrual periods due to the absent uterus. Often, the first noticeable sign of MRKH syndrome is that menstruation does not begin by age 16…

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Posted: 15th, April 2014 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment


So How Do You Train To Stick Your Finger Up A Man’s Bum?

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THIS isn’t something I’ve ever really thought about: how do you go about training yourself to stick your finger up a man’s bum? No, no, not as part of the festivities on Hampstead Heath but rather, how does a doctor get trained to do prostate exams?

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Posted: 4th, December 2013 | In: Money, Technology | Comment


Doctors grow nose on man’s forehead

TO China, where Xiaolian, 22, has had his new nose grown on his forehead ahead of transplant surgery.

His original nose suffered irreparable damage in an accident.

His new nose was created by contorting his forehead skin into a nose shape with a plastic strip and adding cartilage taken from his ribs.

It’s a great nose. But would you pick it?

Posted: 25th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment


Amnesiac Jason Mortesen wakes up from surgery and sees his wife for the first time

JASON Mortesen was in hospital to have a routine hernia operation. But the anaesthetic – that helps you forget the procedure – gave him temporary amnesia. When he regained consciousness, Jason spotted an “incredibly beautiful” sat by his bed.

That was no lady. That was his wife Candice, to whom he’d been wed for six years.

Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment


How to perfome a fecal microbiota transplant (that’s poo donation to you)

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WOULD you give a friend or loved one some of your bone marrows. What about a kidney? An eye? what about, erm, donating your poo? Marie Myung-Ok Lee did. In the New York Times, Lee, tells us how her turds and, more vitaly, the beneficial bacteria in them, saved her friend’s life.

How did she do the donating? At home.

We’ve distilled some of the highlights from Lee’s casebook. This is how she helped Gene get over his ulcerative colitis, a colon riddled with bleeding ulcers:

The procedure is called fecal microbiota transplant, or F.M.T.

Transplanting the stool from one person into the digestive tract of another seems, well, repulsive, but it also makes sense. The majority of the matter in stool — roughly 60 percent — is bacteria, dead and alive, but mostly alive. While bacteria can make us sick, they also constitute a large part of who we are; the hundreds of trillions of cells in an individual’s microbiome, as this collective is known, outnumber human cells 10 to 1. The bacteria serve many functions, including in metabolism, hormone regulation and the immune system.

 

Yellow soup:

In the 16th century, during the Ming dynasty, fermented fecal concoctions, euphemistically named “yellow soup,” were used for digestive problems. In the 17th century, Christian Franz Paullini, a German physician, compiled a stool recipe book for treating dysentery and other digestive ailments. 

Whose poo?

The donor question was a tricky one. The donor has to be healthy (and will be screened, via stool and blood, for transmissible diseases like H.I.V., as well as for pathogens and parasites); has to avoid any foods the patient might be allergic to; and has to be nearby, as freshness is an issue: the bacteria mix may begin to change once the stool leaves the body.

The process:

Gene’s marching orders were to procure a dedicated blender and sieve, enema tubing and syringe, and lots and lots of newspaper. F.M.T. basically consists of blending stool with saline, straining it, and reintroducing it into the colon via enema.

Gene got better.

What about others?

Some patients have resorted to Craigslist. There is the possibility of creating synthetic stool, but given that there are thousands of unknown species of bacteria in human stool, there’s no way to know if it would be effective. In an ideal future, a universal screening panel will be put in place so that healthy people can donate their microbiota, the way you can with blood.

Maybe they’ll pay for good poo?

 

Posted: 11th, July 2013 | In: Technology | Comment


Incredible image of a baby born but still inside the amniotic sac

SOME images are just incredible. Thanks to a Greek doctor and his camera, we get to see this memorable image taken dyring a caesarian section. Oddly, the amniotic sac remained intact as the birth progressed. The baby is no longer in the womb but continues to take oxygen and sustenance from the placenta.

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The baby is doing well.

Posted: 24th, June 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comment


Amazing moment as toddler hears for the first time

SHALL we all have a lovely moment? How about a really great video of a young boy called Grayson Clamp, and the exact moment he heard his father’s voice for the first time?

Grayson Clamp is three years old and until now, he’s never been able to hear.

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Posted: 24th, June 2013 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment


Patrick Kane’s remote control bionic hand can be programmed by a smart phone

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FACE of the day: Patrick Kane 16, has become the first person in the UK to receive a revolutionary bionic hand which can be manipulated by remote control. He can control it with a smart phone app, which programmes the hand into a raft of pre-set grips.

Patrick, from London, lost his hand when he was a young child. He was fitted with the i-limb ultra revolution yesterday and has described its functions as “priceless“. It costs around $50,000.

Says Patrick:

It’s the little things that are important, like being able to hold a glass while you pour into it, or being able to cut up the food on my plate, rather than having someone else do it for me.

Says the company behind the wonder, Livingston’s Touch Bionics:

Utilizing its pulsing and vari-grip features, the i-limb ultra is the only prosthetic hand with the ability to gradually increase the strength of its grip on an object. This can be very useful in situations where a firmer grasp is required, such as tying shoelaces tightly or holding a heavy bag more securely.

We’ve come a long way, baby:

Prosthetics

These prosthetics made by Felix B. Weinberg, in Baltimore, Md., include a manÂ’s hand, a womanÂ’s hand, two eyes, and an ear, shown May 10, 1951. The lifelike portions of the body are made of soft pliable plastics for use by the patient.  Date: 10/05/1951

Posted: 24th, April 2013 | In: Technology | Comment


Face of the day: Pain Less: the future of relief

FACE of the day: Chris Loaring, Venom extraction technician from Venomtech, a company that provides venom for research, demonstrates how to extract venom from a tarantula during the preview of Pain Less: the future of relief, a new exhibition opening at the Science Museum in central London on Thursday 8 November until July 2013.  The free exhibition explores the future of pain relief and the different ways that pain management is being developed.

Last year, nearly 6 billion painkillers were sold in the UK.

Living in pain is not living much at all. It is horrendous. If the drug help – take them. And if anyone in power is reading this, legalise marijuana. It can help:

 

Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: Technology | Comment


Should female doctors get paid less than male ones?

SHOULD  female doctors get paid less than male ones? No, this isn;’t some tired variation on the standard patriarchal nonsense. It’s actually quite an important question. You see, many female doctors, many more than male, go part time for some portion of their career. This has possible implications for how they should be paid. Dr Andrew Goddard, the Royal College of Physicians’ director of medical workforce, said:

“We know that 38 per cent of female consultants work part-time compared to 5 per cent of male consultant physicians.

The numbers for GPS are even higher.

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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comments (3)


One of the best cyst removal videos ever

YOU’VE see one of the best blackhead removal videos ever. You’ve seen one of the best bogie removal videos ever. Now feast your hardedned eyes on one of the bet cyst removal videos ever:

Posted: 4th, September 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


One of the best bogie removal videos ever

YOU survived the blackhead video. Now cop a lod of the bogie being removed from his patient. If you’re going to pick it, pick a winner:

Posted: 3rd, September 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


‘One of the best black head videos ever’

DR Vikram Singh Yadav presents “Gold Mine Of Black Heads On Nose”, billed thus: “We can say that this is going to be one of the best black head video ever [sic].” Yeah, there are others. Play along at home. Which one would you have popped first?

Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment