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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...

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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

There is no safe dose of radiation. We do not x-ray pregnant women. Any detectable fallout can kill. With erratic radiation spikes, major air and water emissions and at least three reactors and waste pools in serious danger at Fukushima, we must prepare for the worst. When you hear the terms...

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...

Link Removed Sailors aboard the US 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge move pallets of humanitarian relief supplies across the ship's flight deck during an underway replenishment in the South China Sea on Saturday, March 12. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Fidel C. Hart/US...

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

Link RemovedHaving your appendix removed is a relatively simple surgical procedure. But not when you are stationed at a remote Antarctic station, 1,000 miles from help - and you're the only doctor. This is exactly what happened to Rogozov when he was part of the sixth Soviet Antarctic expedition...

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...

Link Removed Swedish man suffered a nightmare ordeal when he accidentally swallowed part of a dentist's drill, The Local reported. The patient was having a routine procedure on his teeth when the drill bit suddenly came loose in his mouth. Before either the dentist or his assistant could reach...

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...

A tory MP who described some of his constituents as "primitive people holding up their trousers with bits of twine" admitted his remarks had been "extremely foolish". Rory Stewart, who represents Penrith and the Borders, also made a joke about local people failing to get medical help for a...