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Smoking May Make Your Nipples Fall Off

6:45AM December 7, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

According to plastic surgeon Anthony Youn, “smokers who undergo breast lifts are at great risk of losing their nipples.” This is not just a theory. Their nipples may “turn black and fall off”. I can’t imagine a more horrifying scene: More »


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Man Grows New Fingertip On His Stomach (Warning: Gross)

10:00AM November 17, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

When you lose the tip of your finger in an accident, you figure you’ll go through the rest of your life being called Stumpy. Warning: graphic image. More »


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Can Lasers Turn Your Eyes Blue?

5:00PM November 3, 2011 | Casey Chan

There is something about blue eyes that can pierce another person’s soul while also acting as a revealing window into your own. Eyes that are brown? Not so much. What if you wanted blue eyes, though? colour contacts? Meh. Try this new laser surgery that’ll permanently transform your eyes blue. More »


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Conjoined Twins To Be Separated Today

8:40AM November 2, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

Surgeons will spend about nine hours today separating two-year-old conjoined twins at Stanford. More »


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New Robot Surgeon Will Keep Jittery Docs From Scrambling Your Eyeballs

3:40PM October 28, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

You’re the patient? Excellent, please lie down on this table. I’ll be your doctor today but will be working from the next room, remotely controlling the needle-wielding robot above you–I’ll try not to sneeze! Just kidding. So, who’s ready for some eye surgery? More »


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Medtronic Failed To Report Its Spinal Implant Causes Cancer

3:20AM October 27, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

Surgical device company Medtronic paid surgeons millions of dollars to investigate the safety of their spinal implant products. Turns out they cause cancer, but no one reported it. More »


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Why Steve Jobs Refused A Potentially Life-Saving Surgery

5:52AM October 21, 2011 | Casey Chan

Walter Isaacson, the author of the upcoming official Steve Jobs biography, told 60 Minutes in the US that Steve Jobs refused what could have potentially been a life-saving surgery. Remember, though Jobs had the deadly pancreatic cancer, he also had a very rare form that was curable through surgery. Jobs didn’t want that surgery. More »


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Watch Surgeons Remove Glowing Cancer Cells From A Patient’s Ovary

9:40AM September 20, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

The surgeons in this (somewhat gory, you’ve been warned!) video followed a lighted path to the cancer cells they needed to remove. More »


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Man Survives Being Impaled Through Eye Socket With Pruning Shears

8:20AM August 31, 2011 | Casey Chan

Leroy Leutscher, an 86-year-old man from Arizona, was out on his yard when he dropped his pruning shears. As he reached down to grab them, he slipped and fell, landing face down on the handle. The handle went through his eye socket and down into his neck. Amazingly, he’s OK. More »


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It Costs $US23,000 To Get Your Peen Snipped In The US

7:40AM August 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

Hospitals are already so ridiculously overpriced that I’m surprised I’m even surprised about this, but according to a new father, a hospital in Boston quoted him $US23,000 for a circumcision procedure for his son. More »