If scientists really discovered the way to reverse loss of memory, this is a great help to those suffering in Alzheimer's disease.
Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works.
The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man's appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man's brain and stimulated with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the patient instead had an intense experience of déjà vu. He recalled, in intricate detail, a scene from 30 years earlier. More tests showed his ability to learn was dramatically improved when the current was switched on and his brain stimulated.
This images are extraordinary electron micrograph images taken using electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged picture of it
A section through human skin. The skin layers, from top to bottom, are the stratum corneum, composed of flattened, dead skin cells that form the surface of the skin. The dead cells from this layer are continuously being shed and replaced by cells from the living epidermal layer below (red). The lowest layer seen here is the dermis. In the middle, a sweat gland can be seen.
A Microfilariae (larval worms) of a parasitic nematode roundworm being attacked by cells of the immune system. Numerous nematodes cause disease in humans, living as parasites of the intestines, blood, lymph, subcutaneous & connective tissues.
After 67 years, Violet Booth was reunited with her engagement ring which she tossed into a field in 1941 after a disagreement with her fiancé, Samuel.
Violet Booth, then Violet Bailey, threw the diamond ring away after arguing with her husband-to-be, Samuel.
The childhood sweethearts, who were out walking, quickly made up. But after a fruitless search for the ring, they believed it was lost for ever.
Yet, almost seven decades later, Mrs Booth, now 88, is able to wear it again after her grandson found it buried in the field.
It took two hours for Leighton Boyes, 33, to unearth the ring with his metal detector. His grandmother, who wept as she put it back on her finger, said it was the perfect way to remember her husband, who died 15 years ago.
Wim Hof, the Tantric Master, hreaks his own record of being engulfed in ice for 72 minutes.
Wim Hof, 48, stood on a Manhattan street in a clear container filled with ice for an hour and 12 minutes Saturday.
Hof said he survives by controlling his body temperature through tantric meditation. Tantra is an Eastern tradition of ritual and meditation said to bring followers closer to their chosen deities.
Hof set the world record for full body ice contact endurance in 2004, when he immersed himself in ice for an hour and eight minutes.
For for year, Robert Fidler and his family hide mock Tudor castle behind 40ft hay bales to avoid having to apply for planning permission, according to reports.
Over the course of two years, he managed to secretly – and unlawfully – build the imposing mock Tudor structure in one of his fields, shielded behind a 40ft stack of hay bales covered by a huge tarpaulins.
Once it was finished, he and his family moved in and lived there for four years before finally revealing the development – complete with battlements and cannons – in August 2006.
Mr Fidler claims that because the building has been there for four years with no objections, it is no longer illegal.
But he is under siege from council planners, who say the castle at Honeycrock Farm, Salfords, Redhill, Surrey, will have to be knocked down.
Leonid Stadnyk is currently the world's tallest living man. He is recognized by Guinness World Records 2008 edition.
Leonid Ivanovyc Stadnyk (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records 2008. He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podolyantsi, Ukraine. Leonid Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery when he was 12 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor which caused the gland to secrete large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in what doctors describe as acromegalic gigantism.
This Human-shaped roots of Chinese fleeceflower plant is entirely the product of Mother Nature, according to its owner Fan. It shows a naked man and woman with fine details.
It appears just as it was when the plant was pulled from the ground, according to the man who spotted it on a vegetable stall in a town in China's eastern Shandong province.
The man, named Fan, was so taken with his find he is said to have paid 600 yuan, more than £40, to buy it.
Curious visitors now travel from miles around to see the foot-long veggie couple on display at his home.
The fleeceflower is a favourite dietary supplement in Asia where its boiled extract is believed to reduce cholesterol and fight heart disease.
The root is also sold as a diet food to help reduce obesity.
Australian teenager named Demi-Lee Brennan, became the first known transplant patient switched blood group, from O negative to O positive, after a liver transplant operation.
Demi, now 15, of Kiama, near Sydney, no longer has to take drugs to stop her body rejecting a donated liver because her blood group changed from O negative to O positive following the operation.
Doctors in New South Wales hope that her case could help thousands of other patients.
Dr Stuart Dorney, a former head of Westmead Hospital's liver transplant unit, said: "We think it happened because we used a young person's liver and Demi had low white blood cells."
Many transplants fail because of complications linked to the body rejecting the new organ.
Demi's case was outlined in this week's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest and largest venomous snake in the world, growing to a length of 18.5 ft (5.7 m) and a weight of up to 20 lbs (9 kg.). The venom of the King Cobra is primarily neurotoxic, and the snake is fully capable of killing a human with a single bite. The mortality rate can be as high as 75%, but most bites involve nonfatal amounts of venom. It is pale olive or yellow olive in color with a pale yellow veneer. Link
Ken Hildebrand, a polio victim was trapped under his car when it rolled over. He survived by eating rotten meat for four days before being found by a hiker.
Ken Hildebrand of Fort McMurray was collecting animal traps about 50 miles southwest of Calgary on Jan 8 when his vehicle hit a rock and rolled over, trapping him underneath.
Mr Hildebrand, who has a weak leg due to polio, was face down on the snowy ground with the vehicle pinning his strong leg.
"It's amazing that he's alive. I can't believe it," Troy Linderman, director of Crowsnest Pass emergency medical service, said. "Ken is as tough as nails."
Mr Hildebrand kept himself alive, if sick, by eating the rotting meat of the animals he had collected and using a beaver carcass to keep himself warm.
Eventually he resorted to nibbling on the beaver's bones. "I tried to eat pieces of that, but it made me sick and I threw up," he said.
To stave off dehydration he pulled surveyor's tape through his teeth to suck up the dew. "I ate a lot of dirt to get a little moisture," he said.
Mr Hildebrand also blew a whistle to scare away coyotes that growled just a few feet away: "It was time to get ready for survival mode."
With 20-acre swimming pool, the Chilean resort of San Alfonso del Mar was named by The Guinness Book of Records as the largest swimming pool in the world.
A hundred and fifteen feet deep at its deepest and a thousand yards long, the 20-acre leviathan holds 66 million gallons of water and is navigable in small boats.
The pool, near Algarrobo on the south coast of the South American country, opened last month after a building project lasting five years and costing almost £1 billion. It has become an instant tourist magnet, with thousands of people flocking to see it.
The vast lido requires high-technology filtration systems to keep the water fresh, with a computer-controlled system drawing in water from the sea from one end and pumping it out of the other.
At six inches (15cm), Heaven Sent Brandy, a female chihuahua, has been named by the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest adult dog in the world. She is just slightly taller than a soft-drinks can.
"Heaven Sent Brandy", a female chihuahua, was given the title of "smallest dog in terms of length" in 2005.
She is a mere six inches (15cm) from her nose to the tip of her tail and has legs as thin as lolly sticks.
Tipping the scales at a bantam-weight 2lb (0.9kg), Brandy lives in Largo, Florida, with her owner Paulette Keller and her family.
Another addition to the list of abnormal animal birth is Cyclops, a two-snouted, three-eyed piglet born in China.
Born in Huimen village, Menla County, China, the piglet was unable to take milk from its mother, forcing farmer Yang Qiaofen to feed it using the mouths it had on either side of its head.
As well as the extra mandibular equipment, the puzzling porcine was blessed with an extra eye in the middle of its forehead, earning it the nickname "Cyclops".
The seventh of seven in its litter, young Cyclops was the only abnormal birth.
While it is able to feed - "both mouths can drink at the same time," noted a surprised Yang, who is feeding it on powdered milk - it is unable to stand properly.
Sanju Bhagat carried his parasitic twin in his stomach for nearly four decades. It so that long because his swollen stomach was mistakenly caused by a tumor. It was during an operation to remove the "tumor" in June 1999 that doctors discovered it was actually his twin brothers body that has been growing inside him. Here's the video of the operation.
"Basically, the tumor was so big that it was pressing on his diaphragm and that's why he was very breathless," said Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. "Because of the sheer size of the tumor, it makes it difficult [to operate]. We anticipated a lot of problems."
Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out -- and then something extraordinary happened.
"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me."
According to German researchers, Lisa Gherardini - the wife of Giocondo, a Florentine merchant - is the woman who posed as Mona Lisa, the famous Leonardo da Vinci artwork. The evidence, according to academics at Heidelberg University, are scribbled notes in the margin of a 500-years-old book.
Many aficionados have long supposed La Gioconda, as she was also known, was the sitter, from comments made by Giorgio Vasari in 1550.
But Vasari's identification was made 50 years after Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa, and, the university said he was noted for elaborating the truth.
Now notes written by Agostino Vespucci, who knew Leonardo, found in the university library, confirm the sitter as Lisa del Giocondo.
"All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by this discovery," Heidelberg library said.
Here's a list of the top ten world's highest earning fictional characters. Now you might wonder how on earth did they get such big money. :)
The earnings are based on worldwide revenue related to toy merchandising, videogame sales, publishing and box-office earnings, and DVD/VHS sales and rentals.
1. Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney) $5.8 billion 2. Winnie the Pooh (A. A. Milne) $5.6 billion 3. Frodo Baggins (J.R.R. Tolkein) $2.9 billion 4. Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling) $2.8 billion 5. Nemo (Andrew Stanton) $2 billion 6. Yu-Gi-Oh! (Kazuki Takahashi) $1.6 billion 7. SpongeBob SquarePants (Steve Hillenberg) $1.5 billion 8. Spider-Man (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko) $1.3 billion 9. Wolverine (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) $900 million 10. Pikachu (Satoshi Tajiri) $825 million
Using only kayak, Australians James Castrission and Justin Jones paddled 2,000 miles for 62 days from Australia to New Zealand. They arrived at a New Zealand beach on Sunday. It was the first successful journey from Australia and New Zealand by kayak.
The pair, who left Australia on Nov. 13, had intended to make it to Auckland, the country's largest city, before Christmas but changed plans after being buffeted during the journey.
During the trip, strong ocean flows forced them to make huge circles to avoid being carried far off course, meaning their eventual journey was much farther than the 1,400 miles they had originally planned.
They were taken for medical checks, amid fears their leg muscles may have deteriorated because of the long period of inactivity. They climbed out of their kayak, however, and appeared in good health.
A fluorescent green pig gives birth to equally glowing piglets. It passed on it's engineered trait to it young, so to speak. The mother pig was cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green.
"Continued development of this technology can be applied to ... the production of special pigs for the production of human organs for transplant," Liu said in a news release posted Tuesday on the university’s Web site.
The piglets’ mother was one of three pigs born with the trait in December 2006 after pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein. Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light, the university said.
A tourist pamphlet for the Thornham Walks - a 12-mile footpath network in Suffolk, England - has been undermined when a girl picking her nose was included in the picture. The big question is, "how on earth did the pamphlet even gets printed? Wasn't it checked?".
Andrew Stringer, a Green councillor, says that "it does not represent our youth in the best light" and wants the "amateurish" pamphlet to be withdrawn.
A Mid Suffolk District Council spokesman admitted: "It's not the best photograph", but added: "They wanted a real picture, not a typical staged one.
"It's a real picture and shows children in their Easter outfits."
A couple only discovered that they are actually twin after they are married. The brother and sister have been split up after they were born. A court annulled the British couple's union after they discovered their true relationship.
"This did not involve in vitro fertilization: It involved the normal birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents," said Alton, an independent member of the Lords. "They were never told that they were twins."
"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation," he said.
"I suspect that it will be a matter of litigation in the future if we do not make information of this kind available to children who have been donor-conceived," he said.
Allegedly, to collect her partner's persion, a 66-year-old Austrian woman lived with the dead body of her 85-year-old partner for almost a year.
Police found the remains of the man in the couple's small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zicksee Tuesday, swaddled in blankets with the dwelling reeking of decomposition odors.
The woman had told a local doctor and neighbors who tried to contact the man since last March that he was abroad. APA said police were looking into whether the woman concealed his death in order to collect his pension payments.
Barbora Skrlova, aka 'Adam', is a 33-year-old woman who fooled Czech authorities by posing as a 13-year-old boy and enrolled in the Marienlyst school.
In mid-December, however, Adam disappeared from the Oslo children's home, prompting police to launch a nationwide search and publish photographs on Jan. 4 of the missing 'child.' Tips led them to find Skrlova in the Arctic city on Tromsoe.
'It turned out that the so-called missing teenager was a 33-year-old woman,' Norwegian police said in a statement.
It was apparently not the first time Skrlova had fooled authorities by posing as a child, which at least in Norway offered her food, shelter and an identity that disguised both her age and gender.
"You might break your teeth on it if you crunch down too hard," the 60-year-old Washington Township man said of his discovery at Russo's Ristorante in Washington Borough.
McHenry's find was rare, according to Gef Flimlin, a marine extension agent with Rutgers Cooperative Extension, who said 95 percent of pearls are cultured for production, unlike the naturally formed pearl McHenry found.
"It's unusual to find one in this type of oyster," McHenry said. "Like one in a million."
Ibolya, a white-tipped reef shark gave birth to a pup in an aquarium in Hungary. The female shark is just alone in her tank and was not came into contact with a male shark, according to the report.
"When I saw the baby shark lying on the bottom of the tank I thought it was a joke," said Attila Varga, the centre’s director.
"I was amazed when I realised it was a real shark. The mother is very protective of her pup, but as soon as we can, marine biologists want to get a DNA sample from both."
August of last year, Forbes listed the top ten most expensive celebrity weddings. Actually, there are 20 in the list with others have the same amount of expenses. The estimated amounts are in US dollars. In the picture are Liza Minnelli and David Gest.
1. Liza Minnelli & David Gest - $3.5 million 2. Paul McCartney & Heather Mills - $3 million 3. Elizabeth Hurley & Arun Nayar - $2.5 million 4. Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes - $2 million 4. Elizabeth Taylor & Larry Fortensky - $2 million 4. Christina Aguilera & Jordan Bratman - $2 million 5. Elton John & David Furnish - $1.5 million 5. Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones - $1.5 million 5. Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren - $1.5 million 5. Eddie Murphy & Nicole Mitchell - $1.5 million 5. Pierce Brosnan & Keely Shaye Smith - $1.5 million 5. Madonna & Guy Ritchie - $1.5 million 6. Donald Trump & Melania Knauss - $1 million 6. Tori Spelling & Charlie Shanian - $1 million 6. Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston - $1 million 7. David & Victoria Beckham - $800,000 8. Ashley Judd & Dario Franchitti - $750,000 9. Mariah Carey & Tommy Mottola - $500,000 9. Marc Anthony & Dayanara Torres - $500,000 10. Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban - $250,000
The list below is the top ten world's most expensive office space rental per square foot.
1. London (West End), England - $328/square foot 2. Mumbai, India - $190/square foot 3. London City, England - $181/square foot 3. Moscow, Russia - $181/square foot 4. Tokyo (Inner Circle), Japan - $179/square foot 5. Tokyo (Outer Circle), Japan - $155/square foot 6. Paris, France - $127/square foot 6. New Dehli, India - $127/square foot 7. DUblin, Ireland - $114/square foot 8. Hong Kong - $106/square foot 9. Singapore City, Singapore - $102/square foot 10. Midtown Manhattan, USA - $101/square foot
The picture below show an extraordinary friendship between two dog. The other one which lost it's friend in an accident won't leave, even there are many cars passing by.
Mark Malkoff is living a good life in the spacious IKEA store in New York City. He is also documenting his stay and uploading vidoes to a website where everybody can watch his stay in the store. This guy is also the man who visited the 171 Starbuck location in New York in 24 hours.
When Mark Malkoff thought about where he could stay while his New York City apartment was being fumigated for cockroaches, he quickly ruled out friends' places (too small) and hotels (too expensive).
Instead, the comedian and filmmaker decided to move into an IKEA store in suburban New Jersey, where on Monday he unloaded two suitcases into a spacious bedroom at the store.
With over 1600 hand-set diamonds which includes an amazing 7-carat, D-IF, brilliant-shape centerpiece diamond, Amour Amour is the world's most expensive dog collar to date at $1.8 Million.
Amour Amour uses crocodile leather - among the most sought after exotic skins in the world - to bring both comfort and durability to the collar.
Crafted with artisan precision and attention to detail, Amour Amour is the world's most exquisite dog collar that only the one pampered pooch will have the privilege to wear.
The FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), the agency of the US government tasked with Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response & Recovery planning listed the most expensive presidentially-declared disasters in the USA in modern history.
Looks like there are more rich dogs than we thought. Here a list of the top ten of the world's richest dogs.
1. Gunther the german shepherd - £90 million 2. Kalu the chimpanzee - £40 million 3. Trouble the maltese terrier - £6 million 4. Tina and kate the collie crosses - £450,000 5. Jasper the mongrel - £150,000 6. Tinker the cat - £100,000 7. Porgy, pride, joy & ronald the cats - £17,500 each 8. Silverstone the tortoise - £16,667 9. Top cat and matilda - £10,000 each 10. Angus the cow and larry the lamb - £7,957 each
At £50 Million, this 18th Century skull which thought to belong to a 35-year-old European who lived between 1720 and 1810 is the world's most expensive skull. Artist Damien Hirst encrusted the human skull with 8,601 jewels and a pear-shaped pink diamond in the skull's forehead.
The artist said that he was inspired by an Aztec turquoise skull at the British Museum, and hopes that his work will eventually be displayed at the institution.
Other Hirst works which have also gone on display at the White Cube gallery in London include a painting of his son's birth by Caesarean section and a tiger shark cut in half and suspended in two tanks of formaldehyde.
Art expert Charles Dupplin from specialist insurer Hiscox called the skull "another bold move" from Hirst.
"This is a spectacular piece and undoubtedly the work with the highest intrinsic value in modern and contemporary art," he added.
Christopher Peebles was saved by his dog, Laney, a black Labrador, from fire by biting his foot repeatedly. The 13-year-old, said he woke up to feel his dog Laney biting in the basement of his family's home.
"I thought she had to go to the bathroom, but she never bites me," Peebles said Friday.
He and his friends walked upstairs with Laney and noticed smoke everywhere in the home.
"We came up the stairs and thought it was a dream, but it was cold when we opened the door _ then we knew it wasn't a dream," Pebbles said.
Who says dessert cannot grow crops. This farming village of Abu Minqar in Egypt is a big proof. The barren dessert before now turns into a lush green farmland.
The village is one of the extreme examples of the country's plan to "green" its deserts and transform the barren areas that consume most of the landscape into productive farms and fields.
Though the policy has been going for decades, it is now achieving large-scale success.
Close to the Libyan border, Abu Minqar is far more remote than majority of desert farmland in Egypt. Its existence is proof that Egypt can set up farms anywhere.
Designed by Susan Rosen, this pair of bikini with a thread-like structure and embedded with Steinmetz Diamonds is truly extraordinary. With a prize tag of 30 million US dollar, it is the current world's most expensive pair of bikini (excluding the model, of course).
Model Molly Sims flaunted this designer bikini and is residing at the centerfold of the 2006 Illustrated Sports Swimsuit issue. The bikini is packed with over 150 carats of D Flawless diamonds.
Other ornamental diamonds include: 1) 51 carat D Flawless Pear Shape 2) 30 carat D Flawless Emerald Cut 3) 15 carat D Flawless Rounds (pair) 4) Platinum-set 8 carat D Flawless Pear Shape (pair)
Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian Egyptologist and archaeologist, and his team, studied the complex Great Pyramid of Khufu. Their studies lead to discovering of the plans of the great pyramid.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu has always fascinated people because it is the only ancient wonder of the world that exists today. It is also possible people are fascinated because Khufu’s pyramid, especially the interior, is very complex. The modern entrance to the pyramid was created in the Ninth Century A.D. by el-Mamoun son of Haroun el-Rhasied. The true entrance is above this one. This passage goes down through the pyramid, and then connects to another corridor that ascends to the King’s and Queen’s Chambers. The original passage continues downwards into an unfinished chamber directly under the pyramid. Discussion about the purpose of these chambers and the complexity of the pyramid is varied and ongoing.
At 6 feet tall and weighing 220kg, this Panasonic TV is now the world's largest TV set. It is expected to cost £50,000 and smashes the previous record size for a TV by 42 inches.
Technology experts estimate that the new Panasonic will use up to 3,000 watts of electricity.
And general guidance for watching TV is to check the size and then sit two-and-a-half times further away, giving it a viewing distance of 375 inches (31.2 ft).
Faye Campbell, 15 years old, has eaten almost nothing but chips for the past 10 years. She suffered a rare condition called gastro-oesophageal reflux, which made her ill every time she tried anything other than chips.
Mrs Campbell said: "Faye just drank milk until she was four or five.
"We tried giving her everything but she rejected it. For some reason at that age she tried a chip and didn't eat anything else."
Mrs Campbell, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, said they had taken Faye to the doctor's repeatedly without any luck.
But she said two years ago the teenager was diagnosed with a condition called gastro-oesophageal reflux - and there was finally light at the end of the tunnel.
The condition, which means digestive acids are sent into the throat, is one of the main causes of indigestion and heartburn.
Huang Liqian, a Chinese, choose to ignore a bizarre growth on the back of his neck in 1990. Now, 17 years later, the growth grow into a 15kg tumour.
Liqian developed symptoms such as severe pain and restricted movement two years ago, so he decided that it was time to find out what was happening to his body.
After finally approaching doctors with the growing problem, his medical diagnosis revealed that he had a neck tumour.
Liqian was taken to the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongging University of Medical Services in southwest China's Chongging, where he is due to have the tumour removed.
Huang Chuncai had his second operation to remove another section of his face tumours which originally weighed 23kg. His first operation last July 2007, had parts of his facial tumours removed. His tumor is result of his genetic disorder called Neurofibromatosis, that primarily affects the development and growth of nerve tissues.
Huang Chuncai underwent his second operation to remove the tumours, which currently weigh around 10kg (22lbs), at a hospital in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, on January 3.
His facial tumour first became noticeable when he was just 4 years old, the hospital said in July. Since then it grew larger at an ever faster rate, blocking his left eye, pushing his left ear to shoulder level, knocking out his teeth and deforming his backbone.
A man named Christopher Lee McCuin is facing serious charges after police officers who were responding to a 911 call, found him in position of a human ear boiling in a pot and a hunk of flesh impaled on a fork sitting atop a plate on the kitchen table, allegedly the remains of his girlfriend.
Authorities believe that the man arrested in the death of his 21-year-old girlfriend cooked parts of her body and may have tried to eat them — actions they said he described to them in the emergency call that led them to the grisly discovery.
Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a capital murder charge. He was in solitary confinement at a jail on a $2 million bond Sunday night and did not have an attorney, officials said.
Smithfield, the painting pig, a.k.a. "Pig-casso", a Vietnamese potbelly pig that became famous paintings, is fighting back against cancer. Doctors give the 10-year-old pig at least another four years to live.
After four years in remission, Smithfield suffered a recurrence of nasal cancer this summer. Surgeons at North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh, N.C., removed another tumor from the top of his nose.
This time around, Smithfield's doctors tried acupuncture to alleviate pain and speed the healing process. The results were dramatic, Martin says.
The two have traveled back to North Carolina several times for checkups. "We've gotten really good reports," Martin says. "And we talked about reconstructive surgery."
After being hit by a lightning in August of 2003, Campbell Gillespie was told by his doctor that he may never have children. Looks like the doctors are all wrong when he and his partner Hazel Topping, defied the odds and she gave birth to 8lbs 8oz son Brogan on New Year's Eve.
"Brogan is a miracle baby in a true sense of the word. God could have taken me four years ago, but now he has given me a wonderful miracle.
"I feel like the luckiest man on earth. I've come a long way. While I was in my coma it was feared I needed to be administered the last rites.
"They said the effects of my injuries were so severe that I would never father a child, but look at us now."
This bread bowl is fit for those who don't have time to wash up. It's one of the strangest culinary inventions in years.
A Birmingham food firm has started making bowls and plates out of dough. The idea is that diners enjoy a soup, chilli or curry, then eat the bowl too.
David Williams, the managing director of Butt Foods, which has developed the idea, admits: "Our banks, our investors all thought we were crackers. But we've now proved them wrong."
The company already supplies a chain of pubs with prawn cocktail-filled bread bowls and says that later this year a leading supermarket will stock its microwavable naan bowl filled with chicken tikka masala.
Here's a list of known men and women who weighed 900 pounds or more.
Here, then, is a list of every known individual who has staked a claim to a weight of 900 pounds or more, in descending order of magnitude. Estimated (or possibly exaggerated) peak weights are marked with an asterisk, while unverified (or unverifiable) stories are marked with two. New entries, photos, and updated information are always welcome. Those looking for a higher moral purpose in this catalog of wonders may note how often these lives have been cut short by venal, inadequate, or positively clueless medical care. How much healthier would the lives of lesser fat people be, if biographies like these were the subject of discussion in professional journals rather than supermarket tabloids?
Alcides Moreno, a New York City window washer miraculously survived a plunge from a 47-story high-rise building. His brother was killed in the accident. His doctor said that his recovery has been astonishing.
"Thank God for the miracle that we had," she said. "He keeps telling me that it just wasn't his time.''
Dr. Herbert Pardes, the hospital's president, described Moreno's condition when he arrived for treatment as "a complete disaster."
Both legs and his right arm and wrist were broken in several places. He had severe injuries to his chest, his abdomen and his spinal column. His brain was bleeding. Everything was bleeding, it seemed.
In those first critical hours, doctors pumped 24 units of donated blood into his body – about twice his entire blood volume.
They gave him plasma and platelets and a drug to stimulate clotting and stop the haemorrhaging. They inserted a catheter into his brain to reduce swelling and cut open his abdomen to relieve pressure on his organs.
Hazel Carter, an animal behaviourist, is really lucky to have owned Connie, an intelligent two-year-old Newfoundland breed dog who does laundry, tidies up and help brings shopping home - a big help for like her who's suffering from arthritis.
"My arthritis is slowly improving these days," said Mrs Carter, from Uckfield, East Sussex. "But there was a point where I was almost bedridden and every movement was painful - so to have Connie there to pick things up and pass them to me was a lifesaver."
Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works.
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