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Does Batman get menopause? Then why “Batmanopause”

This poster was spotted and snapped by IHCer xaotikdesigns. “So I’m visiting my girlfriend at the hospital, and I see this poster on the wall…”

Man loses his penis to flesh-eating bacteria after penile implant surgery goes bad

A man in Florida opted for a penile implant to fix his erectile dysfunction after the normal ED drugs didn’t work. But what he got was a flesh-eating bacteria and gangrene that resulted in complete amputation of his penis.

Weaving artificial blood vessels out of tiny strips of artificial human tissue

The above contraption is perhaps the future way in which artificial blood vessels will be created— by weaving them out of thin strands of grown human tissue. Sorta gross, yet really fucking cool at the same time.

The long and gruesome history of using corpses in medicine

Last week, there was a story about a large shipment of ground up baby pills from China, seized by South Korean authorities and everyone was like “ewww China”. But it’s not just China— corpses have been used as medicine in Europe and almost everywhere else in the world at some time and place. It seems like a bad idea now, but some believed in the healing power of ground up dead people.

Why transgendered women’s breast cancer risk is still a mystery

When a man takes hormones and has surgery to become a woman, does she suddenly develop an increased risk of breast cancer? Estrogen creates a slightly increased risk of breast cancer, and obviously after someone takes enough hormones to develop breasts, there’s more breast tissue, but it’s still unclear whether transgendered women have the same breast cancer risk as biologically born women.

Alcoholism can now be treated with prescription drugs. Well there go the best episodes of Intervention

Alcoholism is a serious and deadly disease, one that has taken out quite a few members of my extended family. It destroys the brain and the body and creates a completely debilitating dependency on a downward spiral that will eventually take you out, and controlling alcoholism isn’t easy. At least now. But if a new prescription drug, recently given the okay from the French government works like it’s supposed to, treating alcoholism could be just a matter of taking some pills.

IV drip bus helps alleviate your Vegas hangovers

Las Vegas loves to drink, and every morning, I would guess that most of the tourist population of Vegas wakes up with some sort of hangover. So there’s a market. A market for a roving bus that gives out hydration IVs to help alleviate hangovers.

Dental x-rays linked to the most common type of brain tumor

Your whole life, every time you go to the dentist and they want to take x-rays, you’re always told by the dentists hiding behind a thick shielded wall that the x-ray dose you’re about to receive is just teeny tiny and insignificant. It may be small, but that tiny dose has now been linked to the most common kind of brain cancer. Oopsie.

Universal cancer vaccine developed. Time to start smoking again?

For decades, the holy grail of cancer research has been a universal cancer vaccine, one that would target a wide variety of different types of cancers, caused by myriad causes. Brain cancer is different than breast cancer is different than lung cancer is different than liver cancer, but scientists have finally developed a cancer drug that targets a molecule found in 90% of all cancers.

Man doing well after receiving the world’s most extensive facial transplant to date

Over the past couple years, there have been several amazing full or partial facial transplant surgeries in the news. This surgical technology is still new and still continues to produce medical miracles for people who probably thought they’d have to live the rest of their lives in isolation due to extreme facial loss and disfigurement.

This Australian woman dislocated her neck just by sneezing. Ouch.

Sneezing is pretty harmless… no one ever really thinks anything bad could happen to them from just an innocent sneeze. But 28 year old Monique Jeffrey somehow sneezed hard enough to dislocate two neck vertebrae and cause temporarily paralysis. Gesundheit.

After hip surgery, Dutch man can’t stop laughing at everything

After Huug Bosse woke up from hip surgery in 2010, he suddenly realized that he had uncontrollable fits of laughter. It doesn’t matter what he’s doing or what one is trying to talk to him about, it causes him to chuckle.

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Behold the future for the physically disabled and the end of the wheelchair

The TekRMD robotic mobilization device aims to revolutionize mobility for paraplegics, enabling them to not only to expand their horizons, but to be able to stand up and sit down without assistance.

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Old news: Daily aspirin helps heart disease. New news: Daily aspirin can treat, possibly cure cancer

Doctors have been telling older patients or patients with heart conditions to take a daily aspirin for a couple decades now. But this wonder drug just keeps getting more wonderful, as it turns out that an aspirin a day can also help to prevent cancer and my assist in getting rid of existing cancers.