Revisit Lakshmi, the girl born with eight limbs, this weekend on National Geographic Channel.
June 18, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Announcements, Children, Health, Medicine, Misc., Morning News, Oddities, Surgery, disability
Remember Lakshmi Tatma, a Indian girl who was born with four arms and four legs. We first wrote about her in December 2007, saying…
The people of her rural Indian village did not see this as a deformity. They believed that she was a ‘gift from God’, christened her ‘Lakshmi‘ after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of wealth, and queued outside the house to be blessed by the girl.
But the actual cause of the extra limbs was that the girl had a twin who hadn’t fully developed and instead became attached to Lakshmi’s body at the pelvis.
Lakshmi made headlines around the world …read more
Medical Abnormalities (and Miracles) Abound!
June 3, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Blogosphere, Extreme, Genetics, Oddities
Just a quick post today, because, after seeing this, there’s not a whole lot to say. Well, I could go on and on, but this is truly one of those cases where pictures really are worth a thousand words…and then some.
ABC News has an amazing slide show of medical abnormalities and medical miracles. We’ve featured a few here at Healthbolt, like Tree Man, the two-faced baby, and the world’s largest and shortest men, but there are many, many more. Warning, though: viewer discretion is definitely advised, especially if you don’t want to get knee-deep in discussions of “why does that …read more
The Sunday Sidebar.
May 25, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Gear, Green Health, Health, Misc., Oddities, Technology, The Sunday Sidebar
DIY Tracheotomy…
Could you take a knife to your throat and cut? Not sure I could, but this man has done so, not once but twice. And in doing so, has become his own savior. Seems his throat swelled up to the point where he could not breathe and afraid that the emergency services would not arrive in time, decided to perform a little ‘life saving’ surgery.
Dead, not Dead…
Her heart stopped despite intensive medical treatment following two heart attacks. She had no brain waves for 17 hours and rigor mortis seemed to be setting in. The family said their goodbyes and …read more
The Sunday Monday Sidebar.
A day late, but I think it’s worth the wait.
Free Viagra
Now here’s a politician that really cares about his constituents. Gonzalo Navarette Munoz, mayor of a municipality near the Chilean capital Santiago, wants to improve the quality of life for the older people in the working class suburb of Lo Prado by handing out potency pills.
Jailhouse Menu – could this be the next new diet?
Do you believe this? An inmate in an Arkansas jail awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county jail for weight loss. Apparently he’s lost over 100 pounds in the last eight months …read more
