The brown eyes of a 6-month-old boy turned a deep indigo blue after he was given the antiviral favipiravir to treat COVID-19. This case is unusual, but it's not the first time doctors have reported a patient's eyes changing color after they prescribed favipiravir for COVID-19. So what could be causing this bizarre effect? ... Continue Reading →
A Hungarian woman, born with two uteri, two vaginas and two cervices, defied the odds and delivered a “miracle” baby in July 2023. At 28 years old, Adel Varga was diagnosed with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, an extremely rare condition that often can increase the risk of complications like endometriosis and infertility, according to the National Institutes of... Continue Reading →
The bite of a fluffy cat on the street can be more dangerous than you might think. In the United Kingdom, a 48-year-old who was bit by a stray feline ended up contracting a species of bacterium that scientists and doctors have never seen before. His immune response to the foreign microorganism was a doozy.... Continue Reading →
A Miami area doctor got his second state fine in three months Monday, this time for a mistake during a 2019 appendectomy at Coral Gables Hospital. Dr. Fernando Lora went in to remove an appendix on May 18, 2019. He removed an accumulation of adipose tissue or body fat. That’s in the Florida Department of... Continue Reading →
In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt. For the past month, the country has struggled with severe sea salt shortages as shoppers snap it up in bulk, reflecting heightened public anxiety ahead of the planned release of treated radioactive water from Fukushima, Japan. Japanese authorities and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog... Continue Reading →
A 12-year-old Palestinian Arab boy’s head was internally severed from his neck after he was hit by a car while cycling last month. An injury of this type is almost always fatal. Yet Suleiman Hassan was discharged from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center this week, his life saved by complicated emergency surgery followed by... Continue Reading →
What’s worse than a frog in your throat? How about a whole octopus? Doctors were flabbergasted after discovering that a Singapore man’s throat discomfort was caused by an eight-legged mollusk that had become stuck in his gullet. The unnamed patient had reportedly first realized something was awry after he started vomiting following a meal that... Continue Reading →
Across the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the number of people afflicted by a mysterious, potentially deadly brain ailment keeps growing. Neurological symptoms like hallucinations, muscle wasting, vision problems, memory loss, and abnormal movements were seen in 2015 in a small cluster of patients, eventually growing to 48 cases. But some health experts and local residents... Continue Reading →
A couple who had itchy, red rashes on their stomachs discovered they'd been bitten by mites that were the parasites of beetles living in their furniture. The 30-year-old man and woman from France went to an infectious disease clinic to be checked out three days after the rashes appeared on their skin, according to the authors of a case... Continue Reading →
Elephants have long intrigued scientists for the fact they rarely get cancer – and a new study suggests this may be linked to their testicles. Unlike humans and most other land mammals, elephants’ testicles don’t descend outside the body. Instead, they remain high up inside, close to the kidneys. Keeping the testicles cool is essential for good... Continue Reading →
