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Ear piercing is not normally something that is considered dangerous, but it can be, just ask 15-year-old Grace Etherington. Grace developed a rare auto-immune disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome when her ear became infected after it had been pierced a few days earlier. The first indication that something was wrong...
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The British General Medical Council heard yesterday that a doctor threatened to kill a speed camera operator through the poor practice of medicine. Those present at David Heal’s misconduct hearing heard that he pulled over his Porsche to confront the speed camera operator and knocked his hand when he...
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I’m no criminal mastermind or anything, so would-be criminals can take my advice with a pinch of salt – but I will say this: if you are going to rob a bank, don’t do what this guy allegedly did. Ryan Homsley got himself picked up by the FBI after...
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Something went wrong when a man went into a hospital in northern Italy for a routine unilateral orchiectomy (removal of one testicle) six years ago. A surgeon accidentally removed the 27-year-old patient’s healthy right testicle, realized his mistake and then took out the left one as well – it...
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Every time Jerry Douthett puts on a pair of socks he will be reminded of the time Kiko, his Jack Russel terrier, saved his life. Douthett, a musician, had been carrying a foot infection for a while, and had been keeping it a secret. He explained: It smelled, and...
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A 32-year-old Swedish man stitched his own leg wound after apparently becoming tired of waiting more than an hour for treatment. The Sundsvall man, who said he cut his leg on the edge of a kitchen stove while performing home renovations, told The Local that hospital staff reported him...
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An increase in jaw injuries has seen at least one Taiwanese dentist recommend that fast food chains to drop giant burgers from their menus. Professor Hsu Ming-Iung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University told the China Post that patients had sore jaws and in some cases...
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Research undertaken at the University of Valencia has seen scientists arrive at a startling conclusion: beautiful women are bad for men’s health. The issue is to do with a hormone, namely cortisol, which is produced by the body under stressful conditions. One of those conditions, it seems, is being...
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A Romanian doctor who is said to have amputated a patient’s penis in a fit of rage has been given a second chance to practice medicine. Dr Naum Ciomu has had his medical license reinstated by the Courts of Appeal in Bucharest, after the Doctors’ College of Bucharest banned...
