Yikes! Unilateral epistaxis [photo/video]

The things people get lodged in their bodily cavities is astounding!  Watch a video of this thing being removed…

Unilateral Epistaxis

A 44-year-old man presented with a 7-day history of epistaxis on the left side. He reported that he had washed his face in a freshwater stream 7 days before the onset of symptoms. A suspected blood clot was seen in the left middle turbinate on anterior rhinoscopy, although endoscopic examination showed that the possible clot was a living leech. After lidocaine nasal spray was applied to the left nasal cavity, the leech was retrieved with an aspirator (video). The epistaxis subsequently resolved. Although leech infestation is not a common cause of nasal bleeding, it should be considered when an exposure that is consistent with such infestation has occurred.

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Remarkable image of a ‘pushy’ baby [photo]

I think this is one determined human being who is going to push its way through life!

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Photo link: http://connect.tangle.com/uphoto?PID=359480

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Do you experience pain while wearing high heels? [photo]

This picture may help answer that question–ouch!

Xray of someone wearing a high heel shoe

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Up close and personal [photos]

“Here you’ll experience the power of SEM in a journey of self-discovery that starts in your head, travels down through the chest and ends in the bowels of the abdomen. Along the way, you’ll see what’s normal, what happens when cells are twisted by cancer and what it looks like when an egg meets sperm for the first time.”

You will find 15 microscopic images of the following:

1. Red blood cells
2. Split end of a human hair
3. Purkinje neurons
4. Hair cell in the ear
5. Blood vessels emerging from the optic nerve
6. Tongue with taste bud
7. Tooth plaque
8. Blood clot
9. Alveoli in the lung
10. Lung cancer cell
11. Villi of small intestine
12. Human egg with coronal cells
13. Sperm on the surface of a human egg
14. Human embryo and sperm
15. Colored image of a 6-day old human embryo implanting

Lung cancer cells

Split end of human hair

Tooth plaque

Really interesting site!

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White tongue [photo]

White tongue - NEJM

“A 55-year-old male nonsmoker with multiple myeloma refractory to chemotherapy was admitted to the hospital for autologous stem-cell transplantation. Palifermin was to be administered before and after the transplantation. On completion of the 3-day infusion of palifermin before transplantation, an asymptomatic, white, adherent plaque developed, coating the tongue. Culture revealed normal oral flora, without candida. Oral mucositis did not develop, and the white plaque faded, without treatment, over a 1-week period and did not recur during the post-transplantation administration of palifermin. The patient was discharged 2 weeks after the successful transplantation. Palifermin, a recombinant keratinocyte growth factor, is used for the prevention of oral mucosal injury induced by cytotoxic therapy in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Palifermin stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of epithelial cells. The white tongue is commonly observed in patients treated with palifermin and most likely reflects transient, protective mucosal thickening.“

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God’s pharmacy

In the beginning, God created herbs and such before He made man so that ‘Adam’ [humanity] would be provided for and live a healthy life.  Adam lived 930 years!  Now…

For today’s lesson, look at these facts.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the researches shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges , Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Stunning “eye” [photo]

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Physician sued for making “lipo-diesel” from patients’ fat [news]

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Craig Alan Bittner apparently created “lipo-diesel” from his patient’s fat and used it to fuel his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator.

An attorney for three of the patients suing Bittner says his assistant and girlfriend removed more fat than necessary — presumably to use it for making the fuel — and that the patients were disfigured because of it. Neither his girlfriend nor the assistant had medical licenses.

Bittner’s practice, Beverly Hills Liposculpture, closed in November. It’s unclear when he started and stopped making his “lipo-diesel” or how he made it.

Read the story>>>here.

First tracheal transplant [video]

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Claudia Castillo is given a laboratory-engineered trachea produced from her own stem cells.  Her left lung had collapsed after a tuberculosis infection.  She’s had no sign of organ rejection.

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Son photographs father’s heart after autopsy [photo]

Here’s a picture of a father’s heart:

Human heart. I took the picture during autopsy of my father, I waive all right.

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Trivia Time 1: Hershey’s, Coors, kissing, belly buttons…

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• The little paper tag that comes out of the top of a Hershey’s kiss is called a nigglywiggly!
• In the 1500s, it was a crime to be caught kissing in Naples, Italy.  The punishment?  Death!
• Research shows that 66 percent of kissers turn their head to the right.
• Before most people could read or write, if a girl had to sign a legal document, she would put down a big “X” for her name.  Then to make it more official, she would kiss her signature.  That’s how the tradition of kisses and Xs stuck around.
• A survey in Italy found that Italians tell between 5 to 10 lies a day.  The number one lie was, “Don’t worry; it’s been taken care of.”  The second was, “It’s nice to see you.”
• During the 1400s, eavesdropping was a crime and was punished with jail time.
• When someone tests a new pen, the odds are almost 100 percent that they will write their name with it.
• When Coors translated their ad motto Turn It Loose into Spanish, it became Sueltalo con Coors, which can mean the same as ‘Get diarrhea from Coors.’  And when Clairol tried to shop their new curling iron called the Mist Stick in Germany, it didn’t sell well.  Someone pointed out that in German slang mist means manure.  Who wants a manure stick in their hair?
• A woman named Frances Glessner Lee made incredibly detailed dollhouses in the 1940s but they weren’t for play.  Frances was a police officer who cosntructed small crime scenes using dollhouses and dolls.  There were used as classroom tools for the police to use as training for Crime Scene Investigation.  Her “dollhouses of death” were so good, the doors could be opened with tiny keys.  Dioramas like them are still used in universities and police academies today.
• For $2500 at a Disney park, a woman can have a Cinderella theme wedding complete with the glass coach being pulled by four ponies.
• Belly button experts have not been able to figure out why belly button lint is almost always blue, even if it comes from a girl who owns no blue clothing.
• Wrinkled fingers and toes from staying in the bathtub too long does not mean they’re shriveling–they are actually expanding.  The longer you stay in the water, the more water molecules soak into your skin tissue, which stretches the skin out.
• In traditional Japanese society, women put their clothes in small, enclosed spaces and burn incense with them so the clothes would smell good.
• If you added up the hair growth of ALL your hair over your lifetime, it comes to about 590 miles.

More Goodies:

There are three kinds of secret keepers:

1. The Vault: They can keep a secret!  If a secret goes in, it will never come out again.
2. The Piggy Bank: They can keep a secret, but if someone pressures them, they will “break” open and spill their secrets all over the place.
3. The Open Door: They keep secrets for up to an hour.

Cheap toilet paper on a roll wasn’t available until the 1800s.  What did people use before that?  Here are some creative “wipers”:

1. Eskimos and Siberians used snow.
2. Vikings used handfuls of wool.  Other people in the Middle Ages used “gompf” sticks.
3. Early American settlers used corncobs.
4. Rich Frenchmans used pretty lace napkins.
5. Ancient Romans has a short stick with a sponge soaked in salt water attached to it.

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Dream anatomy

This anatomical imagery is detailed inspiration.  Some are beautiful and whimsical,, while others are quite  grotesque.

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“Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.”

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Q: About your dreams: how do you interpret them?  Are they in color or black and white?  Have they ever helped you solve a problem or led to a published story/poem?

Watch surgical procedures online [video]

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