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How Is Our Left Brain Is Different From Our Right?

The American toddler who got a set of car keys lodged in his brain ... and recovered unscathed

Doctors pulled Giant Hairball from Girl’s Stomach

First amazing pictures of Siamese twins Faith and Hope

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

EU Says Drugmakers Blocked Cheaper Drugs

Doctors don't know why my legs are getting bigger

Arrogant, Abusive and Disruptive -- and a Doctor

Laser skin welding the suture of future for surgery

Whatever you do, don't panic. Oliver Burkeman introduces six unpublished 999 transcripts, where the drama of an emergency call unfolds.

Top 10 Incredible Self Surgeries

Cold Sore Virus Linked To Alzheimer's Disease: New Treatment, Or Even Vaccine Possible

Inner Workings Of The Immune System Filmed

How lizard spit aids diabetes cure

British surgeon tells of how he carried out amputation via text message

Achoo! 150 reasons why you should have a hankie at the ready

5 Flu Vaccination Myths

Brain swelling blamed in many Mount Everest deaths

The Web May Be Hazardous to Your Health

The Best Reference Sites For Medical Students

Plastic Surgery Fail

The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain

How the Nose Sniffs Danger in the Air

Top 10 First Aid Mistakes

Now Hear This: Don't Remove Earwax

Doctors manage to halt 7ft 12-year-old from growing any bigger

11-Month-Old Colombian Baby Weighs 62 Pounds

Seven-year-old girl being kept alive by Viagra

Paralysed man walks again thanks to Robocop-style exoskeleton

Warnings for parents of fat children

Kids of older dads have higher bipolar risk

The Brain From Top To Bottom

Scariest Hospital Risks - Drug errors, overcrowding and 5 other serious hazards

Woman who turned silver warns of dangers of internet medicines

What Its Really Like To Be Schizophrenic

New Cannabis-like Drugs Could Block Pain Without Affecting Brain, Says Study

'Super Lice' Leave Parents Scratching Their Heads

How TB dupes the immune system: study

Body exhumed in fight against flu

Health facilities flush estimated 250M pounds of drugs a year

Newer antipsychotic drugs come with their own new side effects

The Bipolar Puzzle

Woman Kicked Out of New Zealand For Being Too Fat

Simple powder to beat 2,400 genetic diseases goes on sale in two years

Rare Condition Causes Woman to Have Gigantic Legs, Feet

Vintage Marlboro ads targeted at moms

Eyes Evolved for X-Ray Vision

Face transplants: In pictures

Bill Oddie: The day I discovered my mother was a violent schizophrenic who was locked away in a mental asylum

Superbugs - The new generation of resistant infections is almost impossible to treat

10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions

Lab-grown tendons gradually fade to bone

Sexual Attraction By Odor Changed By Contraceptive Pill

New anti-arthritis vaccine planned

Looking for heart disease? The eyes have it

Most Medicated States

Doctors and Things That Happen

One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill Changes You Back

1.5 tesla MRI scan of my brain

Fat into muscle - how to turn a beer gut into a six-pack

Mental patient dies after being left in chair for 22 hours

Everyday Pollutants as Detrimental as Smoke

8 Easy Steps to Banish Bad Breath

Man says 9-foot tapeworm came from undercooked salmon salad

US Measles Cases Highest Since 1996

Ear infections make fat foods sound better

The Smell of Cancer

Obesity: Scientists identify a protein that promotes the burning of body fat

Understand Your Phobias (Rational or Otherwise)

Acupuncture The world's oldest form of medicine may cure aches and shed pounds

'DIY' kidney machine saves girl

Study Suggests 86 Percent of Americans Could be Overweight or Obese by 2030

7 benefits of regular physical activity

afraidtoask.com Have you ever had a medical question that you were too embarrassed to ask a friend, family member, or even your doctor?

World's first double arm transplant as man gets teenager's limbs in 16-hour operation

Britain's fattest teen weighs 33st

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time

The dirty secret of your NHS

Aussies crack cancer secret

Strange Alternative Power Source: Expired Medications

Vanishing Bone Disease - Gorham-Stout Syndrome

The 9 Best Natural Medicines for Depression

Working with idiots can kill you

"Sleepless" Mutation Found Responsible for Sleeplessness

135 Famous People Who Struggled With Depression

8 Crazy Stories From The ER

Ravers lose sight at laser show

Smoking is 'good for your memory and concentration'

Ancient bones could help combat TB

Autism Genes Are Linked to Early Learning

Thieves Mistake Cochlear Implant For Blue Tooth Headset

The Truth About Plastic

10 things that are suprisingly good for you

Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel of HIV

What Medicine Owes the Beatles

Cleveland Clinic surgeons removing donor kidneys through single bellybutton incision

Animal tissue rejection advance

The incredible Doctor Fish spa

Brain That Changes Itself: into the abyss

Memorable patients: part four

Outcry at Government drug watchdog's plan to cut arthritis treatments

Natural Treatment for Clinical Depression

As Seen By The Color Blind

14 Reasons You're Not Sleeping

Happy 30th Birthday, "In Vitro Baby," Louise Brown!

The Pleasant Truths About Pain

Bacon Floss

Despite pain, woman believes in better days thanks to 'X-Files'

Next: a Medical Wikipedia

31 Simple Ways to Prevent Cancer

10 Things You Didn't Know About You

Fighting the curse of the face-eating tumour

Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds

Annals of Medicine: The Itch: The New Yorker. The story of a woman so addicted to scratching, that she scratches a hole in her skull while sleeping.

High Heels Cause Schizophrenia and 6 Other Outlandish Medical Theories

Uncombable hair syndrome

A Guided Tour of Your Body

8 Common Foodborne Illnesses And Their Symptoms
Curious patient Googles doctor, discovers sex offender

The Worms Crawl In. Scientist infects himself with intestinal worms to prove that allergy sufferers can cure themselves the same way.

A new study finds that most sunscreens don't offer sufficient protection. How to find the right one.

Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills

Improper vegan diet results in father's child abuse conviction

What Does Alzheimer’s Look Like in Your Brain?

Miniature Dachshund Gnaws Off Diabetic Owner's Toe

Canadians first to illustrate Lyme disease bacterium

Sunshine may be nature's disease fighter

Vegan girl, 12, 'has spine of 80-year-old'. I think the contributing factor is child neglect rather than diet.

Meet the real bionic woman - the mother who has had almost all her joints replaced

What a carry on doctor! A newly qualified GP reveals what really happens behind surgery walls

Tracking the Immune System A new imaging probe illuminates the body's defense system as it fights cancer

Fears grow that MRSA variant has entered food chain

700-pound man dreams of walking down the aisle

Polish baby born 15 times drink drive limit

Five of the World's Most Technologically Advanced Hospitals

Top 15 Amazing Facts About The Human Body

Men's top 10 health threats: Mostly preventable

Baby born with a second penis on his back

12 Extremely Weird Diseases and Conditions You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Boy's souvenir of camping trip: tick paralysis
Study: 1 in 4 adults in NYC have herpes virus

Six Surgical Miracles

The 6 Most Terrifying Allergies You Can Actually Get

Medical Terms of Quite Ordinary Things About the Human Body Which May Sound Bizarre

20 of the world's most expensive body parts

A DAD of two told yesterday how he deliberately froze his right leg so it would have to be amputated

Diary: Sierra Leone slum clinic

41 Secrets Your Doctor Would Never Share

How a chair, rocks, aspirin, and a scarf can keep you alive in 12 do-or-die emergencies

'Elephant legs' woman set for operation

Wildflower Extracts Easily Kill MRSA Superbug

A pictorial history of nurses and midwives uniforms in the UK

Color Infrared X-ray Photo Gallery

8 Horrifying Faces Of Plastic Surgery

What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You

Time in the Sun: How Much Is Needed for Vitamin D?

Shyness drug could boost confidence

New clue to Alzheimer's found

8 drugs doctors wouldn't take

15 of the Weirdest Home Remedies and Folk Treatments Ever

Australia now world's fattest nation

7 Most Bizarre Folk Remedies

Trust drug may cure social phobia

What Your Eyes Say About Your Mood

Upset Over Your Figure? Some Bodies Really Are Painful

14 Smoking Accessories that Nobody Should Own

Lorenzo's Oil boy is dead at 30

15 of the Weirdest Home Remedies and Folk Treatments Ever

6 Insane TRUE Medical Stories

Eight Famous OCD Sufferers

Bed bugs living in new or refurbished mattress

50 Habits of "Naturally Thin" People

An unsanitised history of washing

Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from wandering off

Is This the World's First Infertility Postage Stamp?

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

13 Bizarre Killer Diseases Transmitted by Animals to Humans

i am neurotic

Medical marvel: Baby Macie Hope was born twice

Japanese patient's 'tumour' turns out to be 25-year-old towel

Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’. Neat.

Coma victim woken by granddaughter's scream

Surgeons left metal bar in my head

Woman Quarantined With Bird Mite Infestation

Exercise Information Click on the body part to find the best exercises

Abracadabra! Boy saves own life with magic

Omaha man says this was his second self-tracheotomy

How Do Painkillers Find & Kill Pain?

Natural ways to take care of your teeth

10 Bizarre Diseases You Probably Never Heard Of

10 Mind-Myths: Do Any of These Catch You Out?

The 18-year-old girl who has had three hearts

List of additives in cigarettes

Epilepsy Site Hacked With Seizure Images

Obese blamed for the world's ills

Man's rare ability may unlock secret of memory

Stop using antibacterial soaps now. Really.

Secrets of Great Doctors

Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products

10 Most Shocking things found on people's stomachs

Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet

How Your Dentist Can Save Your Life

How computers can make us sick

When Bodybuilding and Steroids Go Too Far

20 Common Cooking Ingredients that Act Like Medicines

Top Medical Myths Most People Believe

Fourth right foot washes up near Vancouver

Unusual penetrating brain injuries

Hospitals with most MRSA deaths are revealed in study

Easy way to reset your sleep cycle

10 Craziest Facts About The Human Body

Top 10 Deadly Diseases Ranked by Discovery Science Channel

Man’s Vomit Poisons 54 People

Elbow germs

14 Habits That Make You Fat

How David Blaine Held His Breath

Drug resistant TB 'rising in UK'

Scientists discover why plague is so lethal

Sleep paralysis

Life Expectancy Calculator

The Drug Resurrector One pharmacologist’s mission to recycle blockbuster drugs into treatments for neglected diseases

Best Ways To Break Unhealthy Habits

Top 9 Medical Myths

Sitting straight 'bad for backs'

Medical Mystery: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep

Surgeons remove 125-pound belly from Russian woman

Lying? Your face will give you away

You Walk Wrong It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the human foot. But we’re wrecking it with every step we take.

Celebrity Plastic Surgery: What Not to Do

Medical Encyclopedia

Too fat to toddle: How plump kids are transformed at fat camp

Older Chileans given free Viagra

The great depression swindle

Six Diseases You Don’t Want

Decoding your body’s noises: Gas, gurgles and growls

Why Do Some People Sleepwalk?

4 get cancer from teen’s donated organs

Instructions for Shipping Fresh Brains

Discovery of the decade? Injection 'could cure Alzheimer's in minutes'

Confessions of a Bionic Man

Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them

Look, no scars: organs removed via the mouth

Now we have the technology that can make a cloned child

25 Shocking Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry

Man declared dead, says he feels 'pretty good'

Six organs removed. Dr. Tomoaki Kato had to remove a lot more than a cancerous tumor during an unprecedented operation on a 63-year-old Florida woman earlier this month.

Medical Illustration Source Book - Twentieth Edition

Man has first full-face transplant

From blushing to laughter fits, discover what REALLY goes on in our heads

When a baby is destined to die

5 Ways to Synchronize Your Body’s Clock

Gerd Ludwig Photography - The effects of pollution in Russia

Corpus Human Body Museum - Netherlands

Human noses 'can detect danger'

Asperger's: My life as an Earthbound alien

7 Pains You Shouldn't Ignore

The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time

Schoolgirl, eight, died after developing such an extreme phobia of dentists she refused to open her mouth even to eat

British TV crew 'spread deadly flu to remote Peruvian tribe'

Big belly boosts risk of later dementia

What Not to Say to the Pediatrician

Laugh Your Way to Good Health

YouTube - Germs are everywhere

Gran pulls own teeth out because she couldn't get NHS dentist

Medical Craziness: Extreme Babies

All about Tonic-Clonic Seizures

Medication 'worsens Alzheimer's'

Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill

New species of infectious disease found in Amazon

A good night's sleep the key to staying slim

12 Tips to Create a Sleep Haven

UK's first hybrid embryos created

Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIV

Clay May Help Fight Drug-Resistant Germs, Researchers Find

The anorexic woman who dropped to three stone after walking up to 12 hours a day

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?

Close-up of a tick sucking your blood

Woman Goes for Leg Operation, Gets New Anus Instead

10 Deadliest Drugs Approved by the FDA

Handy Henry Marsh: brain doctor uses DIY drill

20 Ways to Combat Allergies

101 At-Home Remedies For Common Ailments

Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900

Illustrations originally published in Chanteclair, a Parisian artistic and medical revue

Malaria. Award-nominated malaria pics.

10 Weird Psychology Studies

Army medics save Afghan boy in Helmand. Amazing X-ray.

Virus Infection Battles Brain Cancer

Body Noise - What it Means, What to Do

Wellcome Image Awards 2008

A Good Poop. A blog about strange and wonderful medical science publications.

Brick Lane made Britain's first 'Safe Text' street with padded lampposts to prevent mobile phone injuries. Is it April the 1st yet?

10 Peculiar Diseases and Syndromes

100 Weird Facts About the Human Body

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

Top 10 Amazing Facts About Your Heart | LiveScience

First Peek Into Deepest Recesses Of Human Brain

Map of Number of Doctors Per Inhabitants

Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV

Confessions of Five Doctors

Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye

The teenage girl who is allergic to WATER

The LSD that’s already in your medicine cabinet: Dextromethorphan

Painfully Disfigured Woman Begs For Euthanasia

The ‘Simon Tatham Has No Sense Of Smell’ FAQ

The ghastly truth about why you don't get treated in casualty

Saving lives is set to become a hands-free activity due to a new gadget that automatically performs CPR on patients

9 Conditions You Couldn’t—and Shouldn’t—Do A Thing About

The Peculiar Pain of Paper Cuts

Dental nightmares

Extreme Plastic Surgery

Restaurant owner's 'spongy' handshake with GP saves man's life after doctor recognised rare killer brain tumour

Tattoos may help deliver vaccine

Cancer and the bacterial connection

Is House Dust Mostly Dead Skin?

The teenager with FOUR kidneys who has promised to donate her extra organs to save lives

31 Simple Ways to Prevent Cancer

Laser could provide breath test for cancer, asthma

Tokyo marathon runner solves mystery of sore nipples

I have Alice In Wonderland syndrome. I'd never even heard of it before Wikipedia has more info.

Olden but golden... YouTube - Flinstones Winston cigarettes commercial

The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects

Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?

Saliva test for breast cancer in the works

Man's plea for breast reduction

Bellybutton Facts

Ten tips for improving posture and ergonomics

Anorexia nearly killed my wife

Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep

Transplant patient has NEW kidney removed after NHS computer blunder

Man's brain infected by eating slugs

Portable Device Quickly Detects Early Alzheimer's

40 amazing facts about sleep

US Obesity rate maps 1985-2004

Australian girl switched blood type after transplant

7 Shocking Genetic Accidents

An illustrated history of trepanation

Camera in a pill offers cheaper, easier window on your insides

5 Famous Missing Fingers

Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know

YouTube - Germs and You

The Big Picture Book of Viruses

Top 20 Facts About Sleep

YouTube - Man Turns Dark Blue. It's actually called Argyria. Here are some some Photos.

Heard the one about reading in dim light being bad for your eyes? It's just a myth. Doctors pour cold water on commonly held views.

Family ill after taking in stray kitten

Doctors Split Teen's Brain in Two to Stop Rare Illness

Interesting reasons why people get headaches

Did You Know: The Human Body

YouTube - Bot Fly Removal. Gruesome and NSFW language. More info here Bot Flies, aka Torsalo or Dermatobia hominis.

7 Worst Killer Plagues in history

With Diet, Exercise and Friendship, Man Loses 400 Pounds

Slideshow - Man undergoes surgery for facial tumors

Boss fires staff for not smoking

Early 19th C German Neurosurgical Set

Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

Top 10 Nastiest Mixed Martial Arts Cuts

True grit: the mum who delivered her own baby by C section

A Familiar Fiend: Painkiller Addiction

High Heels And The Body

Window washer who fell 47 floors likely to walk again

The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman

17 home remedies for bites, aches and burns

Tooth Decay Trends in Fluoridated vs. Unfluoridated Countries

US Medical System: The Worst in 19 Industrialized Nations

The Big Sleep. Interesting.

America's Most Obese Cities

Smoking 'adds to risk of going bald'

Dentist too expensive? Check out these street dentists and their tools

Grandmother saved by daughter's poo

Are your sleep habits making you fat, nasty and dumb?

Fighting the curse of the face-eating tumour

Unfortunate Bodies: 7 Unbelievable Genetic Accidents

10 Most Shocking things found on people's stomachs

Is dirty hardware making you sick?

Honey is better than children’s cough syrups for a silent night

Evel Knievel injury diagram

Kid can move his Brain. A Scottsdale teen who suffered a severe head injury makes light of his trauma by showing of his "brain wave".

Surgical Objects Accidentally Left Inside About 1,500 Patients In US Each Year

Colour Blindness Demonstrated in Pictures

Author Pratchett has Alzheimer's

Irishman hits on 'cure' for psoriasis