Category: Health

Ick. Just gross. This woman is having a cyst drained on the left side of her chest. She must have major infection issues. The cyst is red, inflamed and looks like it hurts a great deal. This is better known as an abscess or an infected cyst. The doctor is about to lance and drain […]

Here’s a 1970’s horror movie come to life… For a young family, the expectation of another child can be a happy experience. When circumstances don’t turn out as expected, it can be devastating. This was the case for Imgur user Otisdriftwood. Upon learning of his wife’s pregnancy, he was elated. Instead of being a family […]

As the Zika out break spreads across the Americas, people continue to ask how this outbreak happened. And in this case, it seems that the virus could be of our own making. The Zika virus outbreak currently gripping the Americas could have been sparked by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes in 2012, critics say. […]

Chick-fil-A has come out with a new diet suggestion and it is brilliant marketing. They recommend you eat an 8-count pack of grilled chicken nuggets three or four times a day. Now, I’m sure that was meant to be humorous at first. But those of us that eat Paleo might just consider something similar. If […]

The Zika virus has people around the world terrified, as news reports of babies born with birth defects flood televisions. Now, the World Health Organization is calling the outbreak >a href=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3425846/World-Health-Organization-deeply-concerned-explosive-spread-Zika-virus-El-Nino-increases-fears-expansion.html>a global public health emergency. The World Health Organisation said the outbreak should be considered a ‘public health emergency of international concern’, putting the mosquito-borne […]

There are no words… this is just gross. A woman went to Dr. Sandra Lee, aka Dr. Pimple Popper, to have a cyst removed on her back. What came out of it was stomach churning to say the least. You have to watch it to get the full effect. I wouldn’t eat first though. From […]

Imagine going to Bingo and meeting the older mate of your dreams, then getting Alzheimer’s from them. It’s OK, because you wouldn’t remember anyway. And while the headline may seem like Alzheimer’s is contagious, it’s not what you think. Scientists have found a link between patients who received nerve-tissue grafts several decades ago and the […]

This is incredibly weird. The Whittington’s baby was very cranky and kept tugging at the area under her left ear. They thought she was teething or that she had an ear infection. The next morning, her neck was swollen and there was a lump. That was when they decided to take her to the doctor. […]

This must be an incredible feeling It’s a bit of an overused cliche’ at this point, but the “miracles of modern medicine” are exactly that. Take a heart transplant, for example, which has become not a particularly routine procedure but certainly one one in which medical science has become relatively proficient – so much so […]

Well, here’s your single-payer UK National Health Service in action. How do you like it, America? Carers have been suspended amid claims they taunted vulnerable dementia patients by torturing the ‘comfort dolls’ they believe are real babies in a series of sick pranks. Sickening video footage shot at Ashbourne House nursing home in Middleton, Greater […]

This really goes without saying, but there is a reason we cook beef before eating it, and this guy learned what it is the hard way. From Metro:   A man with ‘a history of eating raw beef’ presented doctors with a pretty grim discovery. The 38-year-old had been suffering with stomach pain, vomiting, anorexia, […]

Sarah-Jayne McIntosh received a gift for Christmas that may have just saved her life. She got a Fitbit to wear so she could measure her heart rate and calories burned for physical fitness. She was studying while at school when her Fitbit alerted her that her heart rate had just jumped from 84 beats per […]

I hate ticks. I always have, but oddly enough, I have never been bitten by one and I have been all over the northwest and beyond here in the United States. They still creep me out and I have had many friends who have been bitten by them. This video shows a technique for getting […]

After the holidays, your fridge is often stocked with leftover food that you will be eating for days to come. You know every turkey-related recipe that the human race has to offer, but how long does it take for it to turn? Microbiologist Dr. Martin Goldberg has crunched the numbers and tells you when you should […]

Toxic Shock Syndrome is something about which every woman should be concerned. One mother developed the rare infection and lost portions of her memory and motor functions, as well as having a significantly weakened immune system. From The Daily Mail: A mother who thought she had the flu almost died after suffering a rare bacterial […]

Once upon a time, Sarah Palin warned us that death panels were coming… and liberals mocked her for it. But they’re real, as one Texas family is finding out right now, as a mother fights to keep her son alive. A hospitalized Texas man and his mother are in an intense legal battle with a […]

I had no idea you could get cancer in your fingernail or toenail bed. But it makes sense. Melanie Williams developed a black line on her fingernail. She had it for a several weeks before it started to change and spread. That’s when she really took note of it and went to a doctor. She […]

This will put you off your feed definitely. Gross. Why did she let it go so long? It definitely should be excised in sterile conditions or it will return. I know people can’t turn away from this stuff, but I’m doing this as a health warning. If you have a boil or pimple that won’t […]

Little Isaiah was born a fine and healthy little boy. At 3 months-old, that all changed. He got a rash around a cut on his cheek that his mom has now deduced was probably caused by the Ibuprofen she was taking after the C-section in the hospital, which was then passed to her son through […]