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Most of us brush our hair every day and night without consequence. For 13-year old Megan Stewart brushing her hair could kill her. Doctors have diagnosed the teen with a rare condition called “Hair Brushing Syndrome.” It is so rare Stewart’s doctors have actually only heard of one other...
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The 12-year-old African spur-thighed tortoise that you see above had to have its left front leg amputated. Veterinarians at Washington State University’s College of veterinary medicine came up with a novel solution to the reptile’s mobility problem: they fitted a caster painlessly to the bottom of the tortoise’s shell...
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American Marissa Evans is excited to be a grandmother. She’s paid $29,000 to a Mexican surrogate mother, handpicked by her, to have her son’s baby. Thing is her son is dead. 21-year old Nikolas Evans died in 2009 after sustaining a life-threatening brain injury during a fight outside a...
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A 31-year old Vietnamese man is setting records in ways not many would envy. He’s living with a 186-pound tumor, wider than 3 feet, that has been growing from Nguyen Duy Hai’s right leg since he was an infant. In 1997 doctors amputated at his knee but it didn’t...
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What do you get when you mix Ken Jeong (from The Hangover) , Stayin Alive, Saturday Night Fever inspired clothing, charades, a couple of young women in tight t-shirts and a heart attack victim? If you answered the best PSA EVER, click the play button below for your reward....
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A California man is lucky to be alive after doctors found a huge, cancerous tumor with tentacles growing inside him last year. The tumor, which looks like the pods from the sci-fi film “Alien,” was the size of a soccer ball and doctors estimate it was growing inside of...
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Not these two peeps… Sook Shin and Ralf Jankecht are cancer researchers at the Oklahoma University. Sadly for cancer patients everywhere (both present and future), the laptop they hadn’t backed up, and that contained the only copy of a possible cure for prostate cancer, was stolen when someone snatched...
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When it comes down to it, we humans really are a flawed species. Sure, we’ve got our thumbs – but take away our visual points of reference and we don’t all morph into Zatoichi, we just wander around in progressively smaller circles until we bump into a tree. This...
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Colonoscopies are gross and scary enough on their own without cockroaches being introduced into the mix – but the photograph that you see before you is of exactly that: a cockroach in someone’s colon, a live one no less....
Most of us brush our hair every day and night without consequence. For 13-year old Megan Stewart brushing her hair could kill her. Doctors have diagnosed the teen with a rare condition called “Hair Brushing Syndrome.” It is so rare Stewart’s doctors have actually only heard of one other...
American Marissa Evans is excited to be a grandmother. She’s paid $29,000 to a Mexican surrogate mother, handpicked by her, to have her son’s baby. Thing is her son is dead. 21-year old Nikolas Evans died in 2009 after sustaining a life-threatening brain injury during a fight outside a...
A 31-year old Vietnamese man is setting records in ways not many would envy. He’s living with a 186-pound tumor, wider than 3 feet, that has been growing from Nguyen Duy Hai’s right leg since he was an infant. In 1997 doctors amputated at his knee but it didn’t...
A California man is lucky to be alive after doctors found a huge, cancerous tumor with tentacles growing inside him last year. The tumor, which looks like the pods from the sci-fi film “Alien,” was the size of a soccer ball and doctors estimate it was growing inside of...
When it comes down to it, we humans really are a flawed species. Sure, we’ve got our thumbs – but take away our visual points of reference and we don’t all morph into Zatoichi, we just wander around in progressively smaller circles until we bump into a tree. This...
Colonoscopies are gross and scary enough on their own without cockroaches being introduced into the mix – but the photograph that you see before you is of exactly that: a cockroach in someone’s colon, a live one no less....