Bodybuilder, fitness model and unfailing optimist, Andrew Jones has a lot of things going on–but a heartbeat isn’t one of them. On no place on Andrew’s body will you find a pulse anywhere. After being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2012, which can lead to irregular heart rate, shortness of breath and …
Many of us have heard of the historic practice of doctors using leeches to help with many medical ailments, and to provide “blood-letting” as a way to improve circulation and help heal wounds. You’d think it was ancient history, right? Not so fast! As recently as 2004, the FDA has …
Brazillian man Rodrigo Alves, 32, is a flight attendant, and image consultant, but he is perhaps best known for his media fame as a “human ken doll.” Alves sufferes from the mental disorder body dysmorphic disorder, a debilitating condition that affects nearly every aspect of a person’s life. People with …
In addition to using their sticky feet for climbing, long tongues for grabbing food and powerful lungs to croak, one kind of frog has another impressive skill–making “frog foam” when mating. According to Science Daily, “While mating, Tungara frogs (Engystomops pustulosus) release a protein cocktail that they beat into a …
After being born with Poland Syndrome, a genetic disorder that can leave hands webbed and fingers unusually short, Richard Stott, 28, underwent a remarkable set of surgeries at before the age of 11. Poland Syndrome, aka Poland Anomoly, is described as a “rare birth defect characterized by underdevelopment or absence of …
A hemostatic device developed by the military to save lives in the battlefield could soon be saving lives on the dangerous streets of the USA. The FDA has approved Revolutionary Medical Technologies’ XStat Rapid Hemostasis System, a first-in-kind syringe that pumps scores of tiny sponges into gunshot or shrapnel wound …
Review: 23andMe DNA Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry — PaulStamatiou.com By Amber Case CC BY-NC 2.0 A 34-year-old U.S. man was the first-ever recorded case of a human “chimera,” or a person composed of two genetically distinct cells. In this case, the man has extra genes that were thought to be …
After struggling with Body Integrity Identity Disorder, or BIID, 30-year-old Jewel Shuping poured drain cleaner into her eyes in order to “cure” her illness. What may surprise many people is that Sheping found a psychologist to help her go blind. After two weeks of intense therapy to make sure she was sure …
Recently, 43-year-old man who actually got fused to his chair. Yes, physically connected. The Ohio man reportedly had not left his chair for two years; not to eat, not to sleep–not even to go to the bathroom. (Though a woman once found herself in a similar situation when she was …
Sooooo, there’s an elderly woman in China that is known as the “Unicorn Woman” because of a 5-inch horn that’s growing rapidly out of the middle of her head. Liang Xiuzhen, an 87-year-old from southwest China, has been struggling with the mysterious growth for nearly 8 years now. What?! It may sound …
