"Medical" Blogs & Blog Posts

A 63-year-old man was eating breakfast with his wife at a Gainesville, Florida diner when he sneezed forcefully. After experiencing pain in his tummy, he looked down and saw that a portion of his intestines were poking out of a wound that had been he...

This animation explains what hyperdontia is. This rare condition can cause teeth to grow in excess outside of their typical places on the gums, including on the roof of one's mouth. In extreme cases, the entire roof of the mouth will sprout teeth. &#...

Over two years, a 50-year-old woman in Toronto showed up at a hospital emergency room seemingly drunk, slurring her words, and stinking of booze. She was understandably quite upset as she also reported feeling drowsy at odd and inopportune times, lik...

Ancient Egyptian were medical masters of their time. The Egyptian physicians treated everything from cranial fractures to dental issues with impressive success. Treating cancer was a struggle, although evidence suggests they may have tried. An intern...

A 62-year-old Massachusetts man is the first transplant patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. And so far, his recovery is going well. Richard Slayman, battling end-stage kidney disease, checked into Massachusetts General Hospit...

A man in Florida had been feeling "off" since October, and continued to get worse until a bleeding nose and swollen face prompted him to go to a hospital last Friday. But nobody expected what came next: the doctors pulled out 150 live bugs from his n...

If you have two functioning testes, by the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll have produced around 50,000 sperm cells. That's around 300 million per day. So if you don't ejaculate frequently, where do they all go? And is it healthier to re...