health

Mundelein, Illinois: Carpal tunnel syndrome was once largely the domain of middle-aged secretaries who spent all day typing. Now we are starting to see people develop the debilitating condition from other finger-based activities, like texting. Take the example of 16-year-old Annie Levitz, who sent more than 100 text messages...

Lugano, Switzerland: Swiss brothel owners are now taking precautions to safeguard the well-being of senior clients, they are stocking defibrillators and training their prostitutes in their use. The recent death of a pensioner who had chemically augmented his flagging libido was described by one brothel owner as, “bad for...

The H1N1 virus, or swine flu if  you will, has got the world in a state of panic.  Citizens are so fearful of catching the dreaded disease, they’ll go to amazing lengths to stay healthy. But leave it to the Italians to go that extra mile. An Italian inventor,...

By turning a set of stairs into a piano, a Volkswagen-sponsored group in Stockholm, Sweden tested the theory that if they could make stairs more fun then less people would use escalators....

There is no shortage of bizarre weight-loss products in Japan, but the “Boneless Belt” reaches new heights of strangeness. The elasticized belt lifts and separates chunks of a person’s abdominal fat with the aim of boosting metabolism to speed weight-loss....

The moral of this story is to avoid ‘amateurish’ doctors. Lao Du, a Chinese pensioner, has had a broken syringe needle finally removed from his behind after 31 years. He will finally be able to sit comfortably for the first time since 1978 thanks to Chief surgeon Fu Konglong,...