Saturday, April 1, 2006

Health 3

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS

Is The Flu Shot Really Necessary?

'Anti-Aging' Pill Makes Mice Mighty

World's Wackiest Addictions

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Obesity

Cosmetic surgery addict injected cooking oil into her face

Fat parents could be paid to walk their children to school

Fat Kids Have The Arteries Of 45-Year-Olds, Study Shows

Explore flu trends across the U.S.

When Alzheimer's Hits at 40

Aussie scientist to unveil skin cancer vaccine: report

Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black

It's Not a Tumor - Doctors Find Worm In Woman's Brain Instead

Cure for cancer may be delayed by years after callous thieves stole top researcher's laptop

Why Do We Panic?

Woman receives windpipe built from her stem cells

1 Year Old Child is Pregnant

Star Wars-style 'light sabre' to destroy cancer cells

Forgotten But Not Gone: How The Brain Re-learns

Six Symptoms Not to Ignore

Brain implant allows mute man to speak

Holes drilled in the wrong side of heads during surgery NHS watchdog warns

US teen lives 118 days without heart

7 Kickass Sci-Fi Cancer Cures

"Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV

Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors

Top 10 Amazing Biology Videos

Meet Jeremy, a 36-year-old man who weighs 88 pounds. "Manorexia" isn't just a Hollywood illness.

Testing Grandma's Knowledge - Home Remedies Under Scientific Eye

Sleeping pill helped my girl wake up from a SIX year coma

Teen allowed 'calming' smokes at school

50 Ways To Beat The Reaper

How Viagra is advertised in Arabic countries

How To Avoid Morning Breath

Girl Born With 8 Limbs Conscious, Smiles

2 strangely placed nipples

Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured

The World´s Worst Plastic Surgery NSFW

Inside Karen’s Crowded Mind

20 Useless Body Parts (Why Do / Did We Need Them?)

Health Problems Related to the Geek Lifestyle

Unreal Sky. A hospital with artificial sky ceilings installed.

Heart attack victim died and was brought back to life 12 times

Maggots Rid Patients Of Antibiotic-resistant Infection, MRSA


Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong


The 12 germiest places in your life

Dozens of rescuers called in to move 35 stone woman

Doctors battle to save 'human pin-cushion'

Average Joes Who Get Plastic Surgery to Look Like Their Favourite Celebrity

Troops unite to save soldier knifed in head

UK gov advisor proposes 'licence to smoke'

8 Non-Athletes Who've Gotta Be On Steroids

Parents Use Religion to Avoid School Vaccines for their Children

Woman Goes 30 Years Without A Bath

Room Colour and How it Affects your Mood

24 Warning Signs You Cannot Afford To Ignore

Performer gets third ear for art

Hospital floor can't take fat patients weight


Doctors Find Toothbrush in Woman's Nose


5 Deadly Digestive Problems

10 Fast Fixes When You Need Instant First Aid

Pros and cons of DIY dentistry

Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category

Drug-resistant staph deaths may surpass AIDS toll

Plastic Surgery Photo Galleries before and after photos

The World's Largest Tumors

Bad Breath: You Are What You Eat

X-Rays in the News

6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes

Scientists may have found appendix’s purpose

Experimental cancer treatment includes a genetic bonus

Eczema baths 'a waste of money'

Scared woman finds answer on ther internet missed by 6 Tucson doctors

U.S. Soldiers Are Sick of It. Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool. Bright light hurts his eyes. A tumor has been removed from his thyroid. Rashes erupt everywhere, itching so badly they seem to live inside his skin. Migraines cleave his skull. His joints ache, grating like door hinges in need of oil.

Tangerine peel 'kills cancer'

Tips For Saving a Knocked-Out Tooth [Time Is Of The Essence]

That Strange Falling Sensation. See also What is hypnagogic hallucination?

Sick man fined for going to work

World's Worst Polluted Places 2007 on a Google Map.

Woman Banned From Smoking In Her Own Garden

Gene determines whether male body odor smells pleasant

Top Ten Hospital Medications Of All Time

Skin: A Supple Casing, Prone to Damage

Transplant girl gets close-up of her heart

New doubts raised over mobile phone safety

Crash pilot taped scalp on

Eric eases his creaking knee with WD40

10 Things You Might’ve Been Better Off Not Knowing About Your Body

Kids and Sleep: They Need More

Prozac found in drinking water

3-D facial images of children can reveal genetic disorders

10 things you didn't know about you

Loneliness is bad for your health

City surgeons come in handy. The man with the largest hand in the world will be looking forward to a normal life after undergoing radical plastic surgery at Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital.

A rough guide to the inside of your brain

14 Natural Pain Relievers

Russian Doctors Remove Parasite Child from Nikita

What the World's Healthiest Guys Know

Emergency Room True Stories

The World's Most Bizarre Birth Defects

Human-animal embryo study wins approval

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’

Real Age Calculator

The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy

RateMDs.com - Doctor Ratings and Reviews(US + Canada)

History of Artificial Eyes

Fat people are just greedy, says BMA chief

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

German has pencil in head removed after 55 years

Have you ever wondered why it hurts when you hit your funny bone? Or why your eyes close when you sneeze?

The REAL Threat to Americans. What really kills Americans.

Vitamin C useless for preventing or treating colds

Revolutionary bionic hand on sale for £8,500

Squirming Larvae Pulled From Man's Head

Tiny brain, normal life

Obesity in US 1985-2004 (map)

5 Fitness Myths That Are Responsible For Thousands of Fitness Failures

'Elephant man' has face tumour removed. Here is a video if you can face it.

Williams syndrome - Social Inhibition Brain Disorder

ADHD Drug Does Stunt Growth

I've Got Nothing Here. A man was sentenced to 25 years for possessing 58 pills for which he had a legal prescription.

Prevention's Anti-Aging Guide

A Better Way To Donate Your Organs

6 Workout Hacks, Plus 8 Tips for Beginners

Top 10 Bizarre Illnesses - The List Universe

Dramatic rise in DIY plastic surgery

How can you beat a bad back?

Blame that bad back on your ancestors

Viagra nation. It was launched nine years ago as a love potion for impotent men. But Viagra is causing pain as well as pleasure. Lois Rogers reports on a surge in social side effects, including addiction, disease and divorce.

Inhale two puffs where?

Market Forces Cited in Lymphoma Drugs’ Disuse. An "almost miraculous" cancer treatment remains unused. Why? Doctors don't get paid extra for prescribing it.

Monstrous Myostatin Misfortunes - A Collection of Myostatin Deficiency Pictures. Remember that muscly dog? Here are some more cases.

Don't re-use plastic water bottles

The boy who was being poisoned by his food

How to Describe Medical Symptoms to Your Doctor

People with moles on their skin live longer

Grapefruit link to breast cancer

Medical History of British India: Disease Prevention and Control

Americans not measuring up

alli: Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

15-Year-Old Performs Surgery in India

First-ever online database rates sunscreen safety and effectiveness

Intercytex artificial skin heals wounds in tests

Monkey to Human Testicle Transplant

Map: High School Hookups - Teens make life easy for STDs

Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again

Happiness Formula - Test your happiness

Increase your Brain Activity with 15 Ideas

Hand Wound Monday: A Medley Of Firework Injuries

Trick Your Body Into Submission. 18 tricks to hack your body.

What’s Up, Docs? A panel of anonymous physicians coughs up secrets of the trade

Don't worry so much about scary diseases

A Sense of Anxiety a Shirt Won’t Cover. The problem of man boobs.


I used to weigh 630 pounds. I have been overweight all my life. I was close to death. I was written off by everyone, even myself.....I decided to change my existance. I weigh 229 now, I lost 401 pounds but I have excess skin...


Worm found in woman, after 27 years

Deadly twist: Neck adjustments can be risky. Chiropractor's move can trigger strokes in healthy patients.

Teen unplugged 'noisy' life support machine

How States Rank on Health Care

Doctors: 'Put obese children into care'

BBC NEWS | Health | Patient bleeds dark green blood

Do you think you breath air? You're mistaken!

Laptops Are Crippling Us

Muscle cream caused NYC teen's death

The sweet truth: Ditch sugar to look ten years younger

Utermohlen's Later Years. In the 12 years after his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, Philadelphia-born artist William Utermohlen drew self portraits, including those shown here.

15 Extra Ways to Keep Your Brain In Shape

10 Mind-Boggling Psychiatric Treatments

Mites Setup Home In Man's Ears For 2 Years

African bacteria ate holes in girl's eyes

SchizophreniaDiaries.com - True Stories & Diaries of Psychological Torture

The history of Prozac

Street Dentists

Sleep Adjustment - Gain 10 days per year

40 amazing facts about sleep. Thanks Billy H.

'Dettol man' killed by cleanliness

Fat? Blame the bugs in your guts

Dyslexia 'is just a middle-class way to hide stupidity'

Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity

Weight gain ad in 1934 for naturally skinny people


EEK!Human skin populated by veritable zoo of bacteria

An Impostor in the Family. see also Capgras' Delusion.

Why Do We Have Wisdom Teeth?

10 Things You Didn't Know About You

How I got rid of my 'moobs' - TimesOnline. What are Moobs? Man Boobs! see also Gynecomastia - Wikipedia.

No sleep means no new brain cells

Brain 'cannabis' Parkinson's hope

RideAccidents.com

Winning a Jackpot, Facing the Ultimate Loss - New York Times

Skydiving miracle: Man falls two miles

Skydiver survives two-mile fall

At £50 for four, Viagra goes on sale in the high street in England

12 Dangerous Food Additives

Chernobyl Legacy: An online presentation for the photo essay by Paul Fusco. Not for the faint of heart.

Bizarre sleepwalking linked to sleeping pill

I won't be happy until I lose my legs. See Body integrity identity disorder - Wikipedia.

Why can't a person tickle himself?


A Rare Disorder: Stretchy Skin


Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth

List of people with disabilities - Wikipedia

BBC NEWS - Russian shock at 'gagged' babies

Kellyville woman has 93-pound ovarian cyst removed

BBC NEWS - Irish minister in TV tumour spot. An Irish government minister has publicly thanked a sharp-eyed surgeon who spotted a growth on his face during a television appearance.

Rare Medical Images

Hair pulling disorder resistant to treatment

List of human anatomical parts named after people

Why is yawning contagious?


Craziest X-rays


Pseudomamma on the foot: An unusual presentation of supernumerary breast tissue. Also known as nipples in the wrong places.

How much do you actually know about your heart? 4 out of 8 for me.

Ancient Book of Herbs Used in the War on Bacteria

Phil's Tonsillectomy Diary. Make sure you are not eating.

Boy With 3 Legs


The cells lining the stomach
Beauty Inside Our Body


9 months of gestation in 20 seconds - Google Video

Tale of the Tapeworm (Squeamish Readers Stop Here)

Indonesian Girl Born With Two Heads

Woman Smells Like Dead Fish

Using dental floss: An animated guide to flossing effectively

The Missing Body Parts of 10 Famous People.

Top Trumps - Nasty FagsTop Trumps - Nasty Fags

Show Me Your Wound

Gallery of dental horrors

Cockeyed.com Science Club Presents: Tattoo Removal

More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans

Forgetting your own face. A 45-year-old mother of four suffers from prosopagnosia, sometimes known as face blindness. She cannot recognise the faces of her children, her husband or even herself, after a virus struck little more than two years ago.

There were four beautiful mushroom clouds a week. Nobody told us they were dangerous

Dozen shots recommended for most healthy children

Forever Young Video. A 12 year old girl stopped aging at 9 months old. Brooke looks like any other baby girl. But in fact, she's 12 years old

13 craziest mental disorders

Cancer proof your future

Countway Library of Medicine - Rare Books and Special Collections

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Obesity

The Relief of Pain and Suffering

Man is ravaged by flesh eating disease - after DIY accident

Marlie CasseusHaitian Teen With Deformed Face Has Reconstructive Surgery

Why We're Fatter - Five reasons you haven't thought of

Maxim Scars

Abdominoplasty for massive pannus - Panniculectomy. Tummy tucks to you and me.

Awful Plastic Surgery

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

Espacios publicitarios - 1960s and 1970s pharmaceutical ads from Spain

Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs in the U.S., 1950-94

Animated map of obesity levels in America

Organ Donation - Myths and Facts

I'd rather call them tubbyExperts debate whether children should be called obese

Multilingual Glossary of medical terms

20 Things You Didn't Know About Sleep

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Man's brain rewires itself after 19 years in coma

India skull man pulls huge crowds

Healthopedia.com - Your Health Encyclopedia

HelloUltrasound may help regrow teeth

Living with half a brain

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine

First Aid Advice MP3's

Strange afflictions

Drug Library - DrugDigest

Archaic Medical Terms

Skin Rash Hall of Fame

Doctors choose candidates for first full face transplant. Related Isabelle Dinoire Before And After Pictures.

No More Cavities?

The Third Nipple

Doctors who had a taste of their own medicine

TIME.com: Surviving the New Killer Bug. Hardly new. That very same bug nearly ended my life some 20 years ago.

11 cousins have stomachs removed to avoid cancer risk

Chile's lethal back street plastic surgeries

No wonder he had a bad belly. Make sure that you are not eating when you see this.

Graphic images to deter smokers

Circadiana: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Perils of PC Posture

buildyourmemory.com - A mnemonics and memory improvement resource

Sleep-aid - Relaxing vibraphone music

The Human Marvels: The Stone People - Living Statues. More on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

Diary of a Bipolar

Baby Born With Third ArmBaby Born With Third Arm
Why Is the Best Sunscreen Blocked by FDA?

Eye test. Tricky.

Gynecomastia.org. Men with breasts. Also Man Boobs

List of Phobias

Things You Didn't Know About Your Body

Seven first-aid standbys you should never use

Your Brain. What happens in the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease? This tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it.

Fake Disease (Morgellons) Created For Viral Movie Campaign

Fastest-Growing Plastic Surgeries

Australia-cigarette warnings

Tourette Syndrome Plus

Why you should always wear your helmet (nasty picture)

Circumcision: tell me, one more time, why this is a good idea?

Researchers Discover Why Grapefruit Juice Interacts With Drugs

Top 15 ways to live longer

Longest Attack Of Hiccups

Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas. See Morgellons - Wikipedia.

Best Way to Prevent Acne

Chernobyl Legacy. Powerful essay in words and pictures (req. Flash) detailing the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath.

Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback

How does the male pill work?

PLoS Medicine: Disease Mongering Collection

Rollercoasters cause brain bleeding

Avoiding RSI

Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Wikipedia article

Cute Little Eyeworm. I feel a vomit or two coming on.

12 Nails found in skull of man with headache

30 Simple Tips to Help You Get to Sleep. "Pretend it's time to get up" made me LOL!

First face transplant for China Picture

Science Stock Image Library. HIV / AIDS, Herpes, Hepatitis C Virus, Smallpox, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Coronavirus (SARS), Influenza Virus, bird FLU, Foot and Mouth Disease Virus and more.
Woman in Los Angeles catches Black Death

The insides of two women - one 250lb, the other 120lb

First Aid advice in audio format

101-pound man eats 6,500 calories a day

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