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Link Removed As a member of the Microsoft HoloLens product and engineering team, I get to see some pretty cool things on a regular basis. Any day of the week, I have a front-row seat to see how our teams, customers, and partners are making a world where mixed reality changes the way we live...

Are you a medical student preparing for the United States Medical Licensing Examination? If so, First Aid Cases for USMLE Step 1 is an app that you have to consider downloading. Based on the content of the best-selling book with the same name published by global content publisher, McGraw-Hill...

Driver Andrew Linn survived after a 5cm-wide (2in) metal pole went through his mouth and out the back of his skull during a car crash. Mr Linn would have died if the pole went in either direction. The 34-year-old fell asleep at the wheel and hit a fence. One of the poles impaled him...

From strange objects stuck inside bodies to weird animal X-rays, these are some of the most bizarre scientific images you'll see. Outrageous X-Rays Link Removed - Invalid URL

The 19-year-old is 2.12m (6ft 10in) tall and weighs 127kg (20st) but the world record has brought her a lifetime of loneliness. Her height is down to a brain tumour that was diagnosed when she was nine. It caused a hormone imbalance and impaired her vision. 'She looked different...

While most people who have a sweet tooth love munching on cakes and biscuits, one US mum has a very different kind of craving. Mother-of-five Adele Edwards, from Florida, is addicted to another kind of snack - the suite kind, which most people normally just sit on to eat their dinner...

How much radiation is dangerous? Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues. One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts (mSv). In the U.S., the average person is exposed to about 6.2 millisieverts a year, mostly from background...

Dr Ted Eisenberg holds the world record for the most breast operations – and finds time for a spot of knife-throwing in his spare time. Dr Eisenberg has conducted 3,460 breast ops and has a Guinness World Records certificate to prove it. ‘I absolutely love my work,’ said the...

Junrey Balawing will soon be crowned the smallest man in recorded history – as long as he doesn’t put on a sudden growth spurt. Standing at 56cm (1ft 10in), the Filipino teenager is the same size as a one-year-old and will smash the existing record when he turns 18 this June. He is 11cm...

A Chinese man who suffered headaches for four years was found to have a knife embedded in his skull. He says he didn't know it was there and previous medical examinations failed to discover it. More Link Removed due to 404 Error

A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on. After a woman, Anne, in Lyon, France, complained of postsurgery abdominal pains, an X-ray revealed a pair of 4-inch-long...

Like part of the storyline from the 1979 sci-fi classic "Alien," a California man discovered he had a large, tentacled, alien-type tumor growing inside him. After Josh Abken complained of back pains last year, a subsequent X-ray revealed something both frightening and bizarre, CBS 13 reports...

'Singing Patient' Creates Some 'Sick Music' In order to have a successful music career, you sometimes have to be patient. In the case of Carla Ulbrich, she had to become a patient -- a medical patient. In the 1990s, Ulbrich was a singer-songwriter who toured all over the eastern...

Doctors declared Maria das Dores dead on Dec 22 5:51PM GMT 26 Dec 2010 Maria das Dores was a few hours from being buried alive when an official noticed she was still breathing. The 88-year-old was rushed back to the same hospital who had earlier declared her dead. Officials in...