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Remember Lakshmi Tatma, a Indian girl who was born with four arms and four legs. We first wrote about her in December 2007, saying…
The people of her rural Indian village did not see this as a deformity. They believed that she was a ‘gift from God’, christened her ‘Lakshmi‘ after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of […]
Finally, sleeping after no sleep for three years - most new parents expect that their sleep will be disturbed, at least during the first few months after having a baby. But imagine ‘no sleep for three years’. That’s the case for the Lamb family of St.Petersburg, Florida.
Their son Rhett suffers from chiari malformation , a […]
First there was the Tree Man. There there was the baby with two faces. Now, backwards, upside-down feet? Oh yeah.
Now let’s be clear that we are in no way, no how poking any kind of fun at these poor people. But it’s just amazing to see the different ways the body can betray itself, is […]
You know when there is a book being marketed to the children of moms undergoing plastic surgery that the world we live in has changed…drastically.
Now, you will never, ever find me saying that plastic surgery is wrong. That is a completely individual choice, and one I would never even rule out for myself. But what […]
Lots of interesting news this week.
Let’s talk transplants…
US doctors at John Hopkins Hospital recently performed what is believed to be the world’s first simulanteous six-way kidney transplant. Can you imagine that? Twelve people were operated on at the same time, with kidneys removed from six people and transplanted into six other people.
Why all at once? […]
With it still being Heart Month and all, I thought I’d see if I could find some ‘feel good’ stories that will turn us all to mush and tug at the heart string.
Turns out it’s easier to find bad news than good. But I did manage to round up a few happy health stories for […]
At Wake Forrest University, Dr Anthony Atala is manufacturing body parts.
Sounds to me like something out of a horror or science fiction movie but it’s not. Regenerative medicine, the ability of the body’s cells to re-grow, is making amazing breakthroughs.
And at the forefront is Dr Atala and his team. So far they have grown 18 […]
I found this interesting post over at Medgadget…
“The National Museum of Health and Medicine has been uploading pictures to Flickr since September 2006. We’ve transcribed, of course, all information that we have for each picture, but have also been posting some for which we have relatively little information, such as Library of Congress is doing, […]
Anyone ever see Baghdad ER, the award winning HBO documentary that focused on a American military hospital treating wounded soldiers. Raw and often graphic, it exposed us to the reality of war.
Well, HBO is about to air a new documentary, only this time the focus is on a Iraqi hospital treating civilian Iraqis wounded by […]
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Picture this: You’re in the mall. You’ve just splurged on a fabulous handbag. You’re eyeing a pair of Gucci sunnies in that cool starlet style. You’re sucking down an Orange Julius. And in fifteen minutes, you’ll be getting a Botox injection.
No, this isn’t the dream you had last night, this is the life of […]
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