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June 18th, 2008

Revisit Lakshmi, the girl born with eight limbs, this weekend on National Geographic Channel.

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 […]

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June 3rd, 2008

Medical Abnormalities (and Miracles) Abound!

Just a quick post today, because, after seeing this, there’s not a whole lot to say. Well, I could go on and on, but this is truly one of those cases where pictures really are worth a thousand words…and then some.
ABC News has an amazing slide show of medical abnormalities and medical miracles. We’ve featured […]

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May 25th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar.

DIY Tracheotomy…
Could you take a knife to your throat and cut? Not sure I could, but this man has done so, not once but twice. And in doing so, has become his own savior. Seems his throat swelled up to the point where he could not breathe and afraid that the emergency services would not […]

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May 5th, 2008

The Sunday Monday Sidebar.

A day late, but I think it’s worth the wait. 
Free Viagra
Now here’s a politician that really cares about his constituents. Gonzalo Navarette Munoz, mayor of a municipality near the Chilean capital Santiago, wants to improve the quality of life for the older people in the working class suburb of Lo Prado by handing out potency […]

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