The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her.
Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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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...
DETROIT (Reuters) – A package found by a security guard at a U.S. federal office building in Detroit sat three for weeks before someone thought to screen it and found it was a bomb, an official who represents unionized guards said on Wednesday.
A private contract guard, since suspended...
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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...
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...
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Outrage Increasing Over Airport TSA Body Scanning and Pat Downs
In case anyone hasn't noticed, it seems like all hell has broken loose with airline security in the United States with many people vowing to opt-out of...
I tried to install sidexis (X-Ray program) wich uses an access database on a server. The installing program could not reach the connected drive (network). This way I installed the database locally and tried to point it to the one on the server. it was not possible because the odbc drivers are...