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I thought the same thing when I read that this morning, smdh
wader
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Dentists in India pull more than 500 teeth from 7-year-old boy's mouth
Dentists in India have pulled 526 teeth from a young boy's mouth, the most they say they've ever seen in a single person, according to the Times of India.
P. Ravindran, who is just 7 years old, had surgery to remove the extra teeth at a hospital in the Indian city of Chennai last month. Doctors said the operation went well and that the boy now has just 21 teeth — a normal amount for his age.
Dentists in India have pulled 526 teeth from a young boy's mouth, the most they say they've ever seen in a single person, according to the Times of India.
P. Ravindran, who is just 7 years old, had surgery to remove the extra teeth at a hospital in the Indian city of Chennai last month. Doctors said the operation went well and that the boy now has just 21 teeth — a normal amount for his age.
Hmmm, a gene splicing experiment gone bad with a human/shark chimera??? Surprised The Discovery Channel didn't jump on this event for Shark Week???
wader
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just what the hell is going on with Walmart these days.......?
Florida man drives golf cart into Walmart, attempts to run over people
Florida man drives golf cart into Walmart, attempts to run over people
wader
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Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident
The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear reactor, according to a top official at the institute where they worked.
The institute is working on small-scale power sources that use “radioactive materials, including fissile and radioisotope materials” for the Defense Ministry and civilian uses, Vyacheslav Soloviev, scientific director of the institute, said in a video shown by local TV.
The blast occurred Aug. 8 during a test of a missile that used “isotope power sources” on an offshore platform in the Arkhangelsk region, close to the Arctic Circle, Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom said over the weekend. The Defense Ministry initially reported two were killed in the accident, which it said involved testing of a liquid-fueled missile engine. The ministry didn’t mention the nuclear element.
t caused a brief spike in radiation in the nearby port city of Severodvinsk, according to a statement on the local administration’s website that was later removed. The Russian military said radiation levels were normal but disclosed few details about the incident.
News of the explosion set off in nearby cities and towns a run on iodine, which is believed to help prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing radiation. Norway said it had stepped up radiation monitoring after the incident but hadn’t detected anything abnormal.
Southerly winds and the large distance between the border and the explosion make it unlikely that Finland will detect any radiation, Pia Vesterbacka, director at Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, said by phone Monday. The authority hasn’t checked its air filters since the incident but expects to have results this week, she added.
The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear reactor, according to a top official at the institute where they worked.
The institute is working on small-scale power sources that use “radioactive materials, including fissile and radioisotope materials” for the Defense Ministry and civilian uses, Vyacheslav Soloviev, scientific director of the institute, said in a video shown by local TV.
The blast occurred Aug. 8 during a test of a missile that used “isotope power sources” on an offshore platform in the Arkhangelsk region, close to the Arctic Circle, Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom said over the weekend. The Defense Ministry initially reported two were killed in the accident, which it said involved testing of a liquid-fueled missile engine. The ministry didn’t mention the nuclear element.
t caused a brief spike in radiation in the nearby port city of Severodvinsk, according to a statement on the local administration’s website that was later removed. The Russian military said radiation levels were normal but disclosed few details about the incident.
News of the explosion set off in nearby cities and towns a run on iodine, which is believed to help prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing radiation. Norway said it had stepped up radiation monitoring after the incident but hadn’t detected anything abnormal.
Southerly winds and the large distance between the border and the explosion make it unlikely that Finland will detect any radiation, Pia Vesterbacka, director at Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, said by phone Monday. The authority hasn’t checked its air filters since the incident but expects to have results this week, she added.
wader
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Good Lord - this is the first I've ever heard of this..........................
Bedridden Teen Suffers from Rare Disease Turning Him Into Stone: 'It's Only Getting Worse'
A 14-year-old Colorado boy‘s family is in a race against time to find a cure for a rare disease that is causing his entire body to harden.
In January 2013, Jaiden Rogers was diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome, an extremely rare disease that is thickening his skin and essentially causing his body to turn into stone.
“It’s like tapping on a countertop,” his mother Natalie Rogers, 53, first told PEOPLE from their Alamosa home in 2018. “He’s becoming entombed within himself.”
As the medical bills pile up, the family knows there is no cure. But in Europe, there is a special stem cell treatment specifically for rare skin diseases — and the Rogers want to try it.
The problem, the family stresses, is that it costs a million dollars. Doctors in London have been given a grant, says Natalie, but the Rogers need to come up with $400,000. On their GoFundMe page, they count as every dollar comes in.
Bedridden Teen Suffers from Rare Disease Turning Him Into Stone: 'It's Only Getting Worse'
A 14-year-old Colorado boy‘s family is in a race against time to find a cure for a rare disease that is causing his entire body to harden.
In January 2013, Jaiden Rogers was diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome, an extremely rare disease that is thickening his skin and essentially causing his body to turn into stone.
“It’s like tapping on a countertop,” his mother Natalie Rogers, 53, first told PEOPLE from their Alamosa home in 2018. “He’s becoming entombed within himself.”
As the medical bills pile up, the family knows there is no cure. But in Europe, there is a special stem cell treatment specifically for rare skin diseases — and the Rogers want to try it.
The problem, the family stresses, is that it costs a million dollars. Doctors in London have been given a grant, says Natalie, but the Rogers need to come up with $400,000. On their GoFundMe page, they count as every dollar comes in.
wader
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French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich'
A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a source close to the investigation said Saturday. The waiter's colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb...
does no one have any patience anymore?
wader
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Holy Stephen King & the Dark Half!!!!!!!!!!!
Health A teen's abdominal pains turned out to be a fetal twin
In the best-case medical scenario, you go to a doctor and learn that the fears about your mysterious symptoms are unfounded. But in a worst-case scenario, you might have a medical condition you didn't even know existed. If you're squeamish, you might want to stop reading, because this rare story isn't for the faint of heart. A 17-year-old in India had an abdominal mass removed that turned out to be the remains of a fetal twin.
As Gizmodo and other outlets have reported, the unnamed teen had experienced abdominal pain for years. When she visited a doctor about the growing lump in her abdomen, medical experts found that the tumor in question was, in fact, a case of fetus in fetu.
"The contents of the tumour consisted of hairs, mature bones, and other body parts," the BMJ case report, written last month, about the medical rarity explains. It turned out that the mass had been growing inside her for as long as she'd been alive—it even had teeth.
Fetus in fetu involves a fetal twin that's essentially been absorbed into the other twin's body. The new case is especially rare because, as the BMJ points out, other instances have been "usually detected in early age and in male gender." The journal noted that there have been less than 200 cases of fetus in fetu ever recorded, with only seven of those observed in patients 15 or older.
Fortunately, in this case, the teen's doctors were able to remove the mass, and she is making a healthy recovery. According to the BMJ report, "her postoperative period was uneventful," and doctors have been monitoring her for two years. (Still, the photos of the tumor are pretty gruesome.)
"I was much worried about my abdominal lump, after operation I am feeling very well and my abdomen is now flat and my parents are also very happy," the teen said in the BMJ report. "Thanks to all operating doctors."
Everything worked out for this teen in the end, and it sounds like she's in good health. But the slightly terrifying story is a good reminder to schedule that doctor's visit you've been putting off, just in case.
Health A teen's abdominal pains turned out to be a fetal twin
In the best-case medical scenario, you go to a doctor and learn that the fears about your mysterious symptoms are unfounded. But in a worst-case scenario, you might have a medical condition you didn't even know existed. If you're squeamish, you might want to stop reading, because this rare story isn't for the faint of heart. A 17-year-old in India had an abdominal mass removed that turned out to be the remains of a fetal twin.
As Gizmodo and other outlets have reported, the unnamed teen had experienced abdominal pain for years. When she visited a doctor about the growing lump in her abdomen, medical experts found that the tumor in question was, in fact, a case of fetus in fetu.
"The contents of the tumour consisted of hairs, mature bones, and other body parts," the BMJ case report, written last month, about the medical rarity explains. It turned out that the mass had been growing inside her for as long as she'd been alive—it even had teeth.
Fetus in fetu involves a fetal twin that's essentially been absorbed into the other twin's body. The new case is especially rare because, as the BMJ points out, other instances have been "usually detected in early age and in male gender." The journal noted that there have been less than 200 cases of fetus in fetu ever recorded, with only seven of those observed in patients 15 or older.
Fortunately, in this case, the teen's doctors were able to remove the mass, and she is making a healthy recovery. According to the BMJ report, "her postoperative period was uneventful," and doctors have been monitoring her for two years. (Still, the photos of the tumor are pretty gruesome.)
"I was much worried about my abdominal lump, after operation I am feeling very well and my abdomen is now flat and my parents are also very happy," the teen said in the BMJ report. "Thanks to all operating doctors."
Everything worked out for this teen in the end, and it sounds like she's in good health. But the slightly terrifying story is a good reminder to schedule that doctor's visit you've been putting off, just in case.
movetheboat
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New Jersey woman burns down house of man who called her for sex at 4 a.m., then fell asleep
New Jersey woman burns down house of man who called her for sex at 4 a.m., then fell asleep
New Jersey woman burns down house of man who called her for sex at 4 a.m., then fell asleep
movetheboat
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Man impersonating officer pulls over van full of actual cops on Long Island
Man impersonating officer pulls over van full of actual cops on Long Island
Man impersonating officer pulls over van full of actual cops on Long Island
Tourists warned of mysterious rolling balls of poop in Great Smoky Mountains
Read about it here: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/26/tourists-warned-of-mysterious-rolling-balls-of-poop-in-great-smoky-mountains/
Read about it here: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/26/tourists-warned-of-mysterious-rolling-balls-of-poop-in-great-smoky-mountains/
wader
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Surgeons save man's hand severed by saw by attaching it to his groin
A man’s severed hand has been saved by surgeons after they sewed it onto his groin before reattaching it.
Anthony Lelliott cut through his palm, severing his thumb and first two fingers, during a horror accident with a revolving saw while trimming flooring.
The 46-year-old from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, said he felt an out-of-body experience when the hand was almost completely severed at the base of his palm and again just below his fingers.
He was rushed to St George's Hospital in Tooting, southwest London, where plastic surgeons managed to save his hand after seventeen hours of surgery.
The gruelling process required implanting veins taken from his foot and forearm and sewing his hand to his groin to replace missing skin.
They created a flap of skin near the hip and grafting on the hand so the flap can take hold.
Anthony's hand had to remain sewn to his front for two weeks.
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there are pictures at the link
A man’s severed hand has been saved by surgeons after they sewed it onto his groin before reattaching it.
Anthony Lelliott cut through his palm, severing his thumb and first two fingers, during a horror accident with a revolving saw while trimming flooring.
The 46-year-old from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, said he felt an out-of-body experience when the hand was almost completely severed at the base of his palm and again just below his fingers.
He was rushed to St George's Hospital in Tooting, southwest London, where plastic surgeons managed to save his hand after seventeen hours of surgery.
The gruelling process required implanting veins taken from his foot and forearm and sewing his hand to his groin to replace missing skin.
They created a flap of skin near the hip and grafting on the hand so the flap can take hold.
Anthony's hand had to remain sewn to his front for two weeks.
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there are pictures at the link
Keep the plate!!! Keep the plate!!!!
New Hampshire woman fights DMV demand to surrender her 15-year-old vanity plate
pressherald.com/2019/08/27/new-hampshire-woman-fights-dmv-demand-to-surrender-her-15-year-old-vanity-plate/
Associated PressAugust 27, 2019
ROCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman is fighting the state Department of Motor Vehicles over her 15-year-old vanity license plate showing a common parental phrase.
Seacoastonline.com reports Wendy Auger, of Rochester, has been asked to surrender the plate, which reads “PB4WEGO.” The state says phrases related to excretory acts aren’t permitted.
Auger’s appealing. She asked: “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who hasn’t said that to kids before leaving the house?”
She’s one of 92 New Hampshire drivers who received vanity plate recall letters this year. State records show there are 152,028 vanity plates on the road in New Hampshire.
A DMV spokesperson said plates must be rejected “when they do not conform to legal requirements.” The spokesperson said the state cannot comment on the specifics of Auger’s case.
New Hampshire woman fights DMV demand to surrender her 15-year-old vanity plate
Associated PressAugust 27, 2019
ROCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman is fighting the state Department of Motor Vehicles over her 15-year-old vanity license plate showing a common parental phrase.
Seacoastonline.com reports Wendy Auger, of Rochester, has been asked to surrender the plate, which reads “PB4WEGO.” The state says phrases related to excretory acts aren’t permitted.
Auger’s appealing. She asked: “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who hasn’t said that to kids before leaving the house?”
She’s one of 92 New Hampshire drivers who received vanity plate recall letters this year. State records show there are 152,028 vanity plates on the road in New Hampshire.
A DMV spokesperson said plates must be rejected “when they do not conform to legal requirements.” The spokesperson said the state cannot comment on the specifics of Auger’s case.
wader
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Surgeons remove beach ball-sized growth from woman in incredible operation
there are pictures at the link if you dare.........
there are pictures at the link if you dare.........
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