How To Add More Fiber To Your Diet...
Consuming the recommended daily intake of fiber is essential in maintaining a healthy, well balanced diet. Fiber helps protect our body from heart disease, cancer, and digestive problems; and depending on the type of fiber you eat, it can also lower cholesterol, help with weight control and regulate blood...
Obese Drug Dealer Goes To Court in U-Hau...
An obese man accused on 24 counts of the sale and possession of prescription painkillers was taken to court in the back of a U-Haul truck becasue of his overlarge size.
Stephen A. Turo, 56, who by his own estimates weighs around 700 pounds, was accompanied to the arraignment by his wife and daughter. He...
Doctors Baffled by Large Legs...
Mandy Sella’s has an extremely rare disorder that doctors simply can not explain: her legs keep getting bigger.
And because her condition is getting worse, the only advice that professionals can given her is to amputate both of her legs.
But the cheerful 33-year-old Briton from Accrington, says she...
Toddler Survives Cars Keys Lodged In Sku...
Nicholas Holderman from Perryville, Kentucky, was 20 months old when he fell and landed on his parents’ car keys. The fall left him with one key in his eyelid an another that penetrated deep into his brain.
His father Chris Holderman said:
“Nicholas fell down and we heard him cry. It was...
Patient Accuses Doctor of Stapling Butt ...
A patient has filed a lawsuit against a Maryland doctor for allegedly stapling his rectum shut during an operation.
Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, claimed that Dr. Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, botched his surgery in 2004.
The operation caused Watkins to go without defecating for 17...
Ancient Chinese Medicine Used By The Pen...
Acupuncture, the traditional Chinese medicinal technique, has proved so successful in relieving chronic pain that the Pentagon plans to add the therapy to it’s medical arsenal.
Please with the success of treating wounded troops at home, Military physicians will begin training US Air Force doctors...
Scientists Discover Enzyme That Is Key T...
Scientists have discovered a fat controlling protein in the gut, which they hope could be the key to developing a drug to prevent obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Researchers at the University of California found that an particular enzyme, MGAT2, seems to determine whether the fat we eat is burnt off,...
Face Transplant Surgery...
The first US face transplant surgery returned home last month after a successful operation to replace 80 percent of her face.
The patient, who wishes to remain anonymous, suffered a traumatic accident several years ago that left her with no nose, right eye or upper jaw. Her injuries mean she could not smell...
Miracle Baby Grew On The Outside Of the ...
A pioneering surgery carried out by British doctors helped deliver a miracle baby, one month premature, who grew on the out side of the womb.
At 27 weeks pregnant, Jane Jones, 38, saw on a routine ultra-sound scan that her baby boy was developing in her abdomen, on layers of fat the covering the bowel known...
Laser Skin Welding...
High-tech laser skin welding is showing promise as the surgical needle and thread of the future. The new technique uses a smart laser that corrects its own temperature as it works, sealing wounds whilst allowing the internal tissue to heal more quickly after operations and accidents.
Scientists at the Tel...
