Pulling something out of a person’s butt is like opening a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to get. It could be a sex toy, a doll, a bottle, or perhaps a still-living eel. Whatever you find, you can usually throw it away without military invention. Unless it’s an artillery round. …
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Some facts of life should be self-evident. For example, dead people don’t come waltzing out of a mortuary outside of religious texts or horror movies. Recently, though, one Indian man managed to flaunt the laws of nature. He died only so that hospital staff could pull him out of the mortuary freezer seven hours later. …
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We all know drinking too much wine can lead to a whole slew of health issues. But apparently just making it without proper precautions can turn deadly, as well. Four Italian men — all part of the same family — died last weekend near the town of Paola in southern Italy. They were taking part …
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There’s been a lot of talk of potentially fatal alternative medicine lately. Here’s another story to add to the pile. Nobody was intentionally eating toxic amounts of farm animal deworming drugs this time, though. Instead, this Chinese man decided to shove an entire live eel up his ass. But let’s start from the beginning. The …
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As far as medical science has come, there are some injuries that we just have to accept that we won’t survive. Like losing your head — there’s no bouncing back from that. Or so you’d think, but sometimes extremely lucky people manage to survive things they really shouldn’t. Here are six accidents that by all …
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Any port in a storm, goes one famous saying. But the same principle really doesn’t apply to medicine. But tell that to the people who are landing themselves in hospitals with an imaginative cure for COVID-19. They’ve started popping pills that are intended for de-worming livestock. The drug in question is called ivermectin. It’s a …
Cases of COVID-19 infections are surging again, and the CDC is urging everyone who can do so to get vaccinated. But, of course, there are people pushing back — some say the situation is not so bad that they need a vaccine. But no matter what politicians or self-professed medical experts on YouTube say, it’s …
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Doctors spend years and a ridiculous amount of money to acquire the detailed knowledge of anatomy, biology, chemistry, and other science they need to do their jobs. But at the end of their training, they will have the tools they need to tell people what’s ailing them and how to cure it. Well, that’s true …
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Pregnancy is a special time for a woman, with her body undergoing many changes to prepare for childbirth. But sometimes those changes go a bit too far. Take, for example, this 26-year-old new mother from Portugal. Her bizarre case was documented in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 29. Two days after giving …
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If you’ve ever been on a diet, you’ve likely been tempted to just give up and treat yourself to something tasty. Maybe you’ve even wished you could weld your mouth shut to make sure you won’t give in to the temptation. Well, now you can. But be warned – the solution seems more like it’d …
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