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Injecting our guts with fecal bacteria from ancient mummies could cure obesity

April 7, 2012
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Antibiotics have depleted our gut flora and possibly made us fatter. Researchers look for answers in the flora of humans who lived in an era before modern medicine. By Bryan NelsonThu, Mar 29 2012 at 9:19 PM EST Photo: ZUMA Press It sounds outrageous, but King Tut’s stomach bacteria might hold the cure for obesity. Researchers...
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Ageing study looks at fasting to live longer

February 20, 2012
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Picture: Getty Images Scientists in the United States claim people who starve themselves on alternate days may live longer, boost brain power and lose weight. The National Institutes for Aging researchers based their evidence on studies involving animals and humans. Animals were given the bare minimum of calories needed to keep them alive. The...
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Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again

February 6, 2012
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Katie Piper arriving at The TV Choice Awards 2011 in the UK and right, with Lisa Faulkner at a London awards ceremony honouring inspirational women in 2012. Photo: AAP / Getty Images Surgeons in Britain have restored the sight of a woman blinded after having acid thrown in her face in an attack arranged...
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Fake doctor’s recipe for better buttocks: Cement, tyre-filler and glue

November 21, 2011
Oneal Morris is accused of injecting a woman's buttocks with cement and tyre filler. Picture: Miami Gardens Police Department

A WOMAN who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a more curvaceous body. Police say what she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tyre sealant. The suspect...
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Brain Exam Detects Awareness in 3 ‘Vegetative’ Patients

November 10, 2011
The brainwaves were assessed using an electroencephalography (EEG) machine Photo: Alamy

By BENEDICT CAREY – NYTimes.com Three severely brain-injured people thought to be in an irreversible “vegetative” state showed signs of full consciousness when tested with a relatively inexpensive and commonly used method of measuring brain waves, doctors reported Wednesday. Experts said the findings, if replicated, would change standards in treating such patients. Scientists have...
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Men who use internet porn ‘likely to become hopeless in the bedroom’

October 22, 2011
Too much: Men who surf the net for porn are less likely to be stimulated by ordinary sexual encounters

Internet pornography is creating a generation of young men who are hopeless in the bedroom, according to research. Exposure to lurid images and films in the new media is de-sensitising so many young people that they are increasingly unable to become excited by ordinary sexual encounters, a report said. The result is that impotence...
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Wesley Warren Jr needs $US1 million surgery to correct his 45kg scrotum

October 22, 2011
Wesley Warren Jr is trying to raise $US1 million for surgery to correct his scrotal elephatiasis. Picture: Wesley Warren Jr / Facebook

A LAS Vegas man with a medical condition that has caused his scrotum to swell to more than 45kg is trying to raise $US1 million for surgery to correct it. Wesley Warren Jr, went public about his condition – scrotal elephantiasis – because he is desperate to try and raise the cash for the...
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‘Adult baby’ cleared of disability benefits fraud

October 22, 2011
Stanley Thornton has his meal from his personalized high-chair with baby bib and pajamas on.  (Photo Credit:  © Beyond Productions/Jeremy Adair)

A 30-year-old man who wears nappies, sleeps in a cot and feeds from a bottle says he will continue to receive a disability pension as an “adult baby” after being cleared of suspected social security fraud. California man Stanley Thornton, Jr. has a condition called paraphilic infantilism that compels him to role-play as an...
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Couple married for 72 years died an hour apart

October 22, 2011
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A US couple married for 72 years died within little more than an hour of each other while holding hands in hospital. Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, were both injured after their car failed to stop for another vehicle in Marshalltown, Iowa, US website MSNBC reported. The couple were brought into...
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Sex therapist Padma Deva sleeps with patients: Counsellor or courtesan?

October 13, 2011
Sexual healing: Padma Deva helps men overcome their relationship fears over nine two-hour sessions for which she charges £4,000

Counsellor or courtesan? The sex therapist who sleeps with her patients By MANDY APPLEYARD When Padma Deva meets a new client for work she does so not in an office or coffee bar but in the privacy of a hotel room. The meeting typically lasts for two hours during which time the two of...
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