An 18-year old Heysham girl is in stable condition after having to have her stomach surgically removed after she ingested a “super chilled” nitro cocktail made with liquid nitrogen and Jagermeister. Shortly after a night out with friends in Lancaster … Continue reading
Ophthalmologists and eye specialists are coming out to rebuke claims by Australian Optometrists Association member Andrew Hogan that a popular hairstyle made famous by pop sensation Justin Bieber can cause amblyopia – the medical term for lazy eye. Hogan told … Continue reading
Meet Carrie. She’s a special kind of soul. One that could only best be spotlighted by the wonderful folks at TLC’s My Strange Addiction. Part circus freak show, part medical examination, part absolute train wreck, MSA is like the new … Continue reading
A study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that teenagers in low income areas responded more to information about how much exercise it would take to burn off the calories from a sugary soda than … Continue reading
This is a story all about a 28-year-old woman in India who everyone just assumed was a nympho. But then she died. Turned out she had rabies. Complaining to doctors that she was constantly aroused, often with no stimulation, she … Continue reading
Scientists announced on Sunday that they had gained a new level of understanding about a bacterium called anammox which can turn the ammonia in urine into hydrazine, a rocket fuel. Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands announced that … Continue reading
Part-goat, part-spider, all bullet-proof! Could this be the new tagline for the humans of tomorrow? A scientist by the name of Jalila Essaidi hope so! Her project, “2.6g 329m/s,” named after the weight and bullet velocity a Type 1 bulletproof … Continue reading
54-year old scientist Daniel “D.B.” Karron and her firm Computer Aided Surgery Inc. were given a $1.3 million government grant from the Department of Commerce. The money was supposed to go towards developing medical technology for uses in radiation therapy, … Continue reading