Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2013

The Baby with 2 Heads



An eight-month-old baby who grew a second 'head' has undergone surgery to have it removed.
Doctors say the second head was a 'parasitic twin', weighed almost a kilo and had brain tissue within it.




Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Man with a 132-Pound Scrotum



(CNN) -- Imagine carrying a bowling ball between your legs that weighs close to 200 pounds. If that image is too much to stomach, continue reading with caution.
Wesley Warren, 49, spent more than four years with this extra burden before having surgery to repair the damage from a rare medical condition called scrotal lymphedema.
When doctors placed the swollen mass they had cut from Warren's scrotum on the scale, it weighed 132 pounds. That's not counting the fluid or smaller pieces of tissue the surgeons had also removed from the Las Vegas man.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Shit Business


The current toilet seat is a comparatively new invention. It was developed in the Industrial revolution by people who thought it was more ‘dignified’ to sit on a ‘throne’ than the way the natives did. However, many doctors at the time were worried about this causing health problems because it went against nature. But in Victorian England where even table legs were covered with long table-cloths because they suggested legs (which were called only “limbs”) it was considered very improper to discuss such things.