Saturday, December 31, 2005

Health 2

70-stone Brit’s tragic ambition

First womb transplant could take place in 2 years

Horrendous legacy of Bhopal, 25 years later

How junk food diet 'can give you depression'

Research Shows Chronically Ill Patients Might Be Happier if They Give Up Hope

Gene therapy repairs injured human donor lungs for the first time

Surgery Museum Makes You Grateful for Any Modern Healthcare Whatsoever

Two-headed baby abandoned

The History of Birth Control

10 Weird Diseases

Poorer countries make drugs the rich world won't

H1N1 Sparks Urgent Medical Mission in Alaskan Village

Two-year-olds at risk from 'gender-bending' chemicals, report says

Girl, 12, gives birth to boy

10 Unbelievable Medical Mistakes

Thousands of unconscious eye movements stop us from going blind

Infectious Superbug Invades Beaches

Pill to erase bad memories: Ethical furore over drugs 'that threaten human identity'

Scientists warn of first ever case of human mad cow disease from blood plasma

Top 10 Common Medical Myths

Pacman Pain

Breakthrough as scientists develop one-shot jab that WILL beat flu

Teenager whose face was burnt off in aerosol explosion regains his skin... but loses all his freckles

Found: the gene that could grow new teeth

Spinalstips - Tips and ideas for people with spinal cord injuries (SCI)

Are bad sleeping habits driving us mad?

Long hours link to dementia risk

In flurry of studies, researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer

Mermaid dream comes true thanks to Weta

10 Secrets to Brighter, Whiter Teeth

Is there really a race of blue people?

Scientists discover why teeth form in a single row

U.S. man allegedly coaxed Canadian teen's suicide

10 Bizarre Medical Conditions

10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters

7 Most Bizarre Skin Conditions

Why Hair Goes Gray

8 Crazy Stories From The ER

Freak Bike Accident - View With Caution

Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years

Unusual Tumour Man - Rare Images

How Hatred Transforms Your Brain

Eww, gross! (But will it make you sick?)

15 Ways to Hack Your Brain For A Better Life

Conjoined Twins Find a Life Apart

The feminine touch carries more germs

The red wine weight loss wonder drug that lets you eat junk food

The Weird Body Quiz. 5/10 for me.

Stomach Turning Injuries: 6 Reasons Why You Should Never Be A Boxer

Five Ways Brain Scans Mislead Us

Deadly Scorpion Venom Could Cure Brain Cancer

Graphic images appear on cigarette packets to shock smokers into quitting

HIV has been in humans for 100 years, study says

Teenager survives after knife plunged five inches into skull

Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

Sharon Stone 'wanted to botox son's feet to stop them smelling' - court papers claim

Nine Ways to Avoid Household Toxins

15 Foods That Can Save Your Heart

Eight Stories of Locked-In Syndrome

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Obesity

'Therapeutic vaccine' for AIDS within four years, Nobel Prize winner predicts

Girl, 5, With Half a Brain Continues to Thrive, Amaze

10 Tips to Prevent The Common Cold

Top 10 Amazing Mobility Robots for the Handicapped and Disabled

does this look infected to you? Strange Flickr group.

New pain relief that is eight times stronger than morphine

Tennis teen James Doherty died for 15 minutes but survived

Banjo used in brain surgery

Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Vaccine--But How?

Pectin Power: Why Fruits And Vegetables May Protect Against Cancer's Spread

Americans see fat as normal as weights rise

My Rattlesnake Bite-Pictures

Man surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone

20 Most Popular Health Websites

Hole-in-the-heart self repair kit

12 ways to enjoy life for longer

The cold benefits of ice baths

Is illness staring you in the face? Symptoms you can spot in the mirror

How to Market a Deadly Disease - 10 Shocking AIDS Ads from Around the World

Track medicine dosage right on the bottle: Parent Hacks

Useless Body Parts

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

Bird flu survivors’ blood may hold cure

Rare condition gives toddler super strength

Polish man wakes up to new world after 19 years in coma

Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint

The Straight Dope Mailbag: Who was Typhoid Mary?

Agony of mother who put on 7 stone with one baby

BBC NEWS - Meeting the world's heaviest man

Babies with made-to-order defects? - MSNBC.com

10 Best Healing Herbs

9 Little Known Ways To Sleep So It Counts

Why We Get Fevers

Chinese Foot Binding

The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems

Drug Test Cowboys: The Secret World of Pharmaceutical Trial Subjects and Guinea Pig Zero is an occupational jobzine for people who are used as medical or pharmaceutical research subjects.

BBC NEWS | Health | Q&A: Gene therapy for eyes

Disturbing pictures from a new anti-AIDS campaign in France. Pretty NSFW.

Appendix-removal via the mouth leaves no scar

Woman's 11-stone legs may be lost

The addicts on more than 70 over-the-counter pills a day

83-year-old woman has facelift

Poison Ivy Skin Rash Hall of Fame

Hacking Your Body's Bacteria for Better Health

MEDgle - search your symptoms

My Views on Abortion. Stirring tale.

Things From Wes' Nose


Amazing magnetic surgery


How Healthy Are You? I got a B.

Offshore abortion women's group is given licence again

Who is Sick?

My Pain Killer Addictions

What Everyone Ought to Know About Parasites

An A-Z of Of Phobias

What your Sleeping position says about you

Miracle baby comes back from the dead

Healthline - Symptom Search

Distribution of Blood Types

The larvae burrow into your brain. Then you die.

25 Tips For a Better Pre Sleep Ritual

Woman wakes up six years after heart attack, stroke

Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations

Survival of the Sickest

Scientists discover 'shadow person'

Missionary encounters extremely bizarre skin condition in Eastern Europe. With photos. A lot people on Reddit think it looks like Shope papillomavirus in rabbits.

Lad must live without giggling

Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - New Scientist

Ninety minutes blindfolded enhances your hearing

Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors. Sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.

Voyages Beneath the Skull


Flying Objects that have became stuck in MRI scanners which contain powerful magnets.


The Phobia List

Woman in water-drinking contest dies, Ten Fired After Radio Contest Tragedy and BBC NEWS - Why is too much water dangerous?

The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars - New York Times

Dentist pulled out teeth 'as a lesson'

From unusual to outrageous in medicine

Treatment keeps girl child-sized

Life's Little Mysteries - How Does Squinting Help Us See?

Sexuality: Your Telltale Fingertips. Or how to tell if you are gay by measuring the length of your fingers. My ring finger is considerably longer than my index finger by the way. :)

999 callers abusing system

10 Things Your Fitness Club Won't Tell You

Undark and the Radium Girls


How Painkillers Work


The vaccine to cure every strain of flu

What causes "brain freeze"?

BBC NEWS -What Asperger's syndrome has done for us

Boy's Body Turning to Bone

Fantastic Images from Beneath the Skin

Adultitis.org - Awareness, Diagnosis and Treatment for Adultitis

YouTube - The Other Side Of The Coin

Genetic breakthrough that reveals the differences between humans

Pick Your Nose & Eat It - It's Good For You!

Arrested for Epilepsy. Disgraceful.

Laser eye ops could ruin sight

KitchenMedicineBook.com Complete book on Kitchen Medicine

Get ready for 24-hour living

Isabelle Dinoire one year on

The Auger - Journal of Trepan Research. What is Trepan I hear you say. Diary of a Trepannee. Not for the squeamish.

Natural painkiller found in human spit - compound in saliva could be more powerful than morphine

My Cancer After that day, your life is never the same. "That day" is the day the doctor tells you, "You have cancer." Every one of us knows someone who's had to face that news. It's scary, it's sad. But it's still life, and it's a life worth living. "My Cancer" is a daily account of my life and my fight with cancer.

Bionic man. While covering the Iraq war, BBC producer Stuart Hughes lost his leg. His new prosthetic foot is so advanced, it may even allow amputee soldiers back into battle.

5 Reasons To Take Naps. Do you need a reason?

Get rid of stuffed or running nose without drugs - Parapsychology articles and blog

Crazy Meds! The Good, The Bad & The Funny of Neurological Medications

The worm within. Excellent but disturbing read. Click on the last word to take you to the next page.

Reborn We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill.

Crazy Meds! The Good, The Bad & The Funny of Neurological Medications

15 Most Bizarre X-Rays

Alien hand syndrome

Medical Antiques Phisick. Vintage medical instruments.

How I (color blind person) see the world

How to Exercise While Sitting at Your Computer

Wonderful Breastmilk. Some of the many holistic uses of breast milk.

Study: Longterm cellphone use does raise brain tumor risk

Drug trial man's 'brain on fire'

BBC Magazine - Your 20 worst fears

BBC Human Body and Mind - Senses Challenge. I got 13 out of 20.

That Strange Falling Sensation

How to Drink More Water Everyday

Drugs trial rules are tightened

Doctors grow bladder cells and produce rebuilt organ

The obsessive disorder that haunts my life - Beckham

OCD-UK: Leading UK charity for people affected by obsessive compulsive disorder

How to Be Happy. Interesting.

Psychopath test

The Whole Brain Atlas

Women are warned that moving in with a man makes them fat

Hiccup remedies :: Adam Kalsey

Eyeglasses Through the Ages

ScienceDaily: Cervical cancer vaccine holds up

6 Ways To Tell Your Girl To Lose Some Weight

Hack Your Brain with an iPod

More evidence of green tea’s brain benefits

The Influenza Epidemic of 1918

The Boy in the Bubble

Jesse Sullivan powers robotic arms with his mind

Two-head girl dies of infection

Famous People Who Were Bedwetters

A warning about Dollar Store Toothpaste

Ambien May Prompt Sleep-Eating

Brains of smart kids develop later

Surgeons remove two fetuses from infant

How to clean your ear with a bobby pin. ILuvNUFC does not recommend. When I was a little ILuvNUFC I was always told that the only thing that you should stick in your ear is your elbow. That phrase has served me well.

Strange bloodsucking bedfellows

Plundered body parts implanted in thousands

My Eyeball Just Fell Out of Its Socket - What should I do?

Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia

Biopharm Leeches - Suppliers of Medicinal Leeches Since 1812

Pen Sized Device Can Clean Smallpox, Ebola Virus from Bloodstream

Grisly stories about accidents involving shredders at home

Secret to a long life - get even more often

Apt name

Scientists one step closer to cancer vaccine

Neurosurgery chief arrested in Oakland operating room

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Brain Injury Resource Center

Excellent O&A on Back Pain

The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder

Brain Worms and Brain Amoebas: They Do Exist

Depression Patch Approved

Strange afflictions

Tom McMahon: What I Have Learned In 15 Years. It was 15 years ago today that our 8-year-old son Ryan suffered a severe brain injury that left him unable to walk or talk or feed himself. He was in the hospital (in two hospitals, actually) for over six months, and ever since has lived with us at home. I thought I would share some of the lessons I've learned in these past 15 years.

Parkinson's medicine has odd side effect: Gambling

Rate My Life Self-Help Quiz - How Good Is Your Life?

Therapeutic effects of smoking

Diseases of the Presidents of the United States

Sleep position gives personality clue. I used to be a "Soldier" until I got a bad back now I'm a "Foetus"

Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer

Diseases of the Presidents of the United States

Lucid Dreaming

Time-warp family who walk on all fours

Plastic Assets - Invest in Your Breasts. Credit card company offers free boob job with every sign-up. Speechless!

Nasty Toes

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

Urine: The body's own health drink?

ScienceDaily: Cancer vaccine may be possibility

Mom's Genetics Could Produce Gay Sons

Sheryl Crow undergoes breast cancer surgery

The eSkeletons Project

Man Boobs!

Scientists are split on the different ways men and women think

Six Symptoms You Should Never Ignore

TourettesGuy Soundboard NSFW

Man in Vietnam hasn’t slept in 33 years

First day of school for the girl born without a face

PMS Guidelines

Human Radiation Experiments

Doctors remove 11cm worm from woman's eye

Isabelle Dinoire Before And After Pictures

LiveScience.com - Kids are Depressing, Study of Parents Finds

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

Saved - by the skin of her teeth

Deadly bird flu found in Africa and Italy fights to contain bird flu.

Inflammatory diseases drug developed. Sounds interesting and I'm hoping it's not another false dawn. Still at least 10 years away if safe.

8 Questions Men Are Afraid To Ask Doctors

The Ability to Make a Fire Can Save Your Life [PDF]

Pomegranates: the fruity panacea

The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America

New pill increases dreaming sleep

Eye Floaters and Seeing Spots in the Eye

New Eye Exam Spots Disease Risk

Computer Use Deleted As Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Fearless Gene

Does my ass look fat in these pants?

Common cold may save us from bird flu

Student Doctor Network Forums - Things I Learn From My Patients NSFW TEXT

Jack Dies After Last Supper

My strange life with someone else's face. Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who had the world's first face transplant, talks to reporters about how she's recovering.

Gallery :: BRAINS!!

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

The Human Brain - Expert Guide

Laughter Proves Good Medicine for Heart

Laughter paves the way for romance

PHOTOS Show George W. Bush Seriously Ill Physically

Home Remedies and Natural Cures for Common Illnesses

World without pain is hell

Scientists develop bird flu vaccine

Doctors embarrassing moments

Studies look to sea for cystic fibrosis treatment

Once-a-Day AIDS Pill Could Be Ready Soon

Defective Drug Information

The Return of the Puppet Masters

Blind woman regains sight after heart attack

Bacteria in Yogurt Modified to Fight HIV Infection

Flu jabs for all toddlers to head off epidemic

Commonly used antidepressants may also affect human immune system

Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth

Mommy’s Brain

This Is Your Brain on Schadenfreude

Your Brain on Booze

Hear how the world sounds through a Cochlear Implant

California Academy of Sciences - Skulls

Holoprosencephaly

New Scientist More pollution in taxis than on sidewalks

Drugs.com Health Encylopedia

Atlas of Dermatology. Make sure you are not eating.

Caffeine limits blood flow to heart muscle during exercise

Scientists at work on a pill to fade traumatic memories

Blind spots

Whatever Happened To Polio?

Dying to be Thin

Feet Facts - Everthing you didn't know about your feet

Bedwetting Solutions

Fluoride: Protected Pollutant or Panacea?

Avian flu evolution

Mystery Painkiller

Breaking Your Coke Addiction

Protect Your Brain

Correct Posture by Capt. Godfrey Rodrigues

Turkish teenagers die of bird flu

What's the point of detoxing?

Magnet therapies 'have no effect'

Countryside boosts mental health

Mysterious multi-symptom condition still more prevalent among Persian Gulf vets

101 Tips For Improving Children’s Behaviour - Parenting Ideas

Medical Books - FreeBooks4Doctors

Brain protein may be linked to depression

TIME.com: How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time

BBC - Health

Pain Relief Foundation: Chronic Pain - Back Pain

Is Safeway Sucking Your Soul? / Are overlit, heavily toxic supermarkets making you ill and eating your brain? Why, yes

Mad Cow Disease: Hundreds of Articles on Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Mad Deer Disease, prions, BSE, vCJD, nvCJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, CJD, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, chronic wasting disease, CWD, TSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, foot and mouth disease. Could'nt have put it better myself.

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