Posts Tagged ‘ Medical ’

Dying Angela Skeffington, 43, claims blundering medics continually misdiagnosed her stomach cancer as period pains, depression and even indigestion. She also claims one A&E doctor told her to just ‘eat more bananas’ during her continued cries for help, which went on for five months. Now after finally being admitted for a scan she has...
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More than two years after the Food and Drug Administration began receiving complaints about the failure of a hip replacement implant made by the DePuy Orthopaedics unit of Johnson & Johnson, the company said Thursday that it was recalling two kinds of hip implants. DePuy said that it had made the decision to withdraw...
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A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George’s Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn’t need – “to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest.” He adds that...
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Mother-of-two Elin Andersson has highlighted staffing shortage problems at a maternity ward in Sundsvall in northern Sweden after she was asked to clean out her own hospital room just two days after giving birth by caesarean section. Every time Andersson required medicine she had to call staff to remind them, she told local newspaper...
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A Brazilian man who went to the doctor suffering from ear trouble ended up undergoing more radical treatment than he expected – when he underwent a vasectomy. Valdemar Lopes de Moraes, 39, was suffering from muffled hearing, and thought his name had been called out in the waiting room at a clinic in the...
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Yankee great Lou Gehrig may not have had the motor-neuron disorder that was famously named after him. That’s the intriguing suggestion of a group of neurologists who describe a new type of degenerative nerve disease that bears a striking resemblance to Lou Gehrig’s but is distinguished by the presence of two signature proteins that...
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A 32-year-old man who was caught playing ping-pong while claiming to be disabled by cerebral palsy has been jailed for three years by a Swedish court. The man’s deception defrauded the Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) of millions of kronor. He was found out in April after secret police cameras recorded him living an active...
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Police in central Pennsylvania say a middle school teacher lied for years about having an inoperable brain tumor. Fifty-one-year-old Leslie Herneisey (her-NY-zee) of Middletown is accused of faking documents to take sick leave. She faces 12 counts of forgery. Police say Herneisey missed work at Middletown Middle School over the years for treatment of...
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Texan Sheyla Hershey, who achieved her goal of having the world’s biggest boobs, is “in the fight of her life,” after contracting a severe staph infection. Her implants were removed yesterday, but she still may lose one breast. jezebel.com
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Medics at Southampton General Hospital struggled to get the man’s penis out of the stainless steel pipe, because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become erect. Instead, they resorted called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. The fire crew turned up with a special equipment unit from St Mary’s station in Southampton...
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