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Dec 27, 2021 · By Rachael Rettner. published 27 December 2021. From yellow tongue to magic mushrooms growing in a man's blood, we take a look at 10 strange medical cases. When you purchase through links on our...
Oct 5, 2016 · Patients sometimes develop conditions that are so interesting or rare that doctors publish a report of their case. Here's a look at some of the oddest and strangest medical case reports.
Dec 24, 2019 · But such reports can sometimes help doctors better understand rare diseases or spot unusual signs of common conditions. Here are 10 of the strangest case reports Live Science covered in 2019.
- 10 A Puzzling Seizure
- 9 Teeth in The Brain
- 8 Potato Contraceptive
- 7 Death from Peppers
- 6 A Different Kind of Pregnancy
- 5 The Author Who Couldn’T Read
- 4 Green Skin
- 3 Botched Surgery
- 2 Frostbite from Air Dusters
- 1 Blindness from Cell Phones
In 2008, a 25-year-old German man was on a ski trip with a friend when he became trapped by an avalanche and knocked unconscious. On top of a broken hip and ruptured spleen, the incident left him with small muscle spasms that plagued him whenever he moved. In part, this was caused by the oxygen deprivationhe had experienced beneath the snow. But an...
A four-month-old child was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. Doctors first became concerned when his head grew faster than normal, and scans concluded that there was a mass in his brain. But strangely, the scans also showed something else—something small, bony, and very, very odd. After it was removed during surgery, the tumor was revealed to cont...
In 2014, a young woman from Colombia was hospitalized after experiencing intense abdominal pains. The cause? It was nothing more alarming than a potato. For two weeks, it had grown rootsinside her vagina after she placed it there as a contraceptive. Luckily, she was successfully treated. At first, this story may seem comical, maybe even unbelievabl...
Ghost peppers are one of the hottest in the world, so hot that they can be used to make grenades and even guns that cause temporary blindness. They are off the charts on the hotness scale, zeroing in on over one million Scoville heat units. And yet, we still can’t help but eat them. In 2016, one man from California learned the hard way why this pep...
Although Daljinder Kaur had been trying to have a child for years, the path had been fraught with difficulties. For someone who longed to be a mother, it was a heartbreaking reality. But this wasn’t the 20th century. Instead, it was 2013, during an age where science can make anything happen. One of these advancements was in vitro fertilization. The...
On July 31, 2001, Howard Engel woke up and began to read the morning newspaper. Or tried to. As he described it: [It] looked the way it always did. [ . . . ] The only difference was that I could no longer read what they said. The letters, I could tell, were the familiar 26 I had grown up with. Only now, when I brought them into focus, they looked l...
“Green with envy” is a common phrase, but you wouldn’t want to be stuck with this man’s condition. In China in 2013, He Yong mysteriously turned a shade of greenand was checked into a hospital. What caused his skin to develop such a sickly hue? Was it some kind of dye? A vitamin deficiency? The result of a radioactive accident that had morphed him ...
In 2005, 59-year-old Rita Talbert checked in for her thyroid surgery in Virginia. However, when she woke up a week later, she was in pain and could barely recognize herself in the mirror. Her flesh appeared to have melted away, and her mouth, chin, and nose were horrifically disfigured. It turned out that she had accidentally suffered second- and t...
Huffing, or inhaling the fumes from aerosols to get high, is a dangerous act that is commonly seen in teenagers. Of those it kills, 22 percent are first time users, whether through sudden cardiac arrest, car accidents, or suffocation. But it affects adults, too. In 2015, a 40-year-old man was rushed to the hospital with frostbite after huffing thre...
Blindness is caused by many factors. But for two women in the United Kingdom, they became temporarily blind from something totally unexpected: their smartphones. One of the women had trouble seeing out of one of her eyes. She had been viewing her phone while lying on her bed in a dark room. It happened multiple times a week for a year. One eye was ...
Jul 24, 2024 · While suspicion has focused on road closures and preparation for a hospital in Las Vegas to possibly receive the president, there’s no evidence that Biden experienced a medical emergency.
Jun 14, 2024 · Latest WHO Disease Outbreak News (DONs), providing information on confirmed acute public health events or potential events of concern.
Sep 25, 2023 · CLAIM: An emergency broadcast system test on Oct. 4 will send a signal to cell phones nationwide in order to activate nanoparticles such as graphene oxide that have been introduced into people’s bodies. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
