A tumour is shown to the press ahead of the operation at Xijing Hospital in Xi’an, China.
A Chinese woman is to have surgery to remove a 25 kilogram tumour on her back. Sun Fengqin, from Inner Mongolia, said she was born with a yellow birthmark on her back. “My family didn’t pay [...]
The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy who had nearly 50 sewing needles pushed into his body has been arrested by Brazilian police in what authorities say might be a “black magic” ritual.
The O Globo reports that the case is being treated as attempted homicide.
Most of the needles were removed by surgeons, a few as long [...]
Should children be allowed to get dirty?
That’s exacly what new U.S. medical research suggests — because too much cleanliness can apparently interfere with the ability of the skin to heal!
According a report in Nature Medicine by a team from the School of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, normal bacteria living on [...]
