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British prisoners who have been clean for years are being reintroduced to narcotics before being set loose in a bid to increase their tolerance levels before they hit the streets. The controversial practice of preparing reformed heroin abusers for release with small doses of methadone aims to save lives....
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Moscow, Russia: A 19-year-old Russian woman suffered a serious injury to her tonsils after performing what was described as “aggressive oral sex” on her husband. The woman sought medical attention after waking up from a night of passion with the taste of blood in her mouth. She was diagnosed...
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Bone screws are described by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons as being “used for internal fixation more often than any other type of implant.” They are a versatile little piece of technology that has helped many people recover from painful injuries only to need surgery again because many...
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Lady Gaga was forced to change into normal clothes on a flight from London to the United States when one of her outfits caused her to develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT). When the flight attendants saw her legs swelling, which is a symptom of DVT, they warned her that...
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Guilt can drive people to all sorts of extremes. Doctors say it was guilt from using prostitutes and “HIV phobia” that caused “hundreds” of Chinese men to convince themselves and each other that they were stricken with a new sexually transmitted disease that had HIV-like symptoms. While it is...
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A Chinese man presented at a hospital with blindness after playing computer games non-stop for four days. The man, who has been identified as Xu, a businessman who hails from Xining, Qinghai province, is said by China Daily to have entered a cyber cafe after an argument with his...
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A University of Montreal researcher announced that he was forced to drastically alter a pornography study as he was not able to find any adult men who had never viewed erotic material. Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse told the Sun: The objective of my work is to observe the impact...
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A North Carolina doctor may lose his license to practice medicine after a patient complained that he had made cruel remarks. The North Carolina Medical Board will make a ruling as to whether ophthalmologist Dr Earl Sunderhaus of Asheville “overstepped the bounds of professional decency” after a complaint that...
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Cuban men in seven provinces will be eligible for free penis implants under a program that will eventually be expanded to cover the whole country. Cuban urologist explained that the high-cost treatment would be offered to “patients whose sexual suffering does not respond positively to traditional treatments.” Men over...
