Aug 5, 2010

An Indonesian fisherman who is “half man half tree” has been offered new hope of recovery by an American doctor – and Vitamin A. 32-year-old Dede, who lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, feared that he would be killed by the...

Jul 11, 2010

An 11-year-old “werewolf” boy who desperately seeks a cure for his condition is baffling medical experts. Pruthviraj Patil is one of 50 in the world who suffers from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition known as Werewolf Syndrome. As a result his face and body is...

Jul 10, 2010

A creepy case of a man who got tarantula hairs stuck in his eye has doctors advising people to wear eye protection when handling the eight-legged pets. In February 2009, a 29-year-old man visited the St. James’s University Hospital in Leeds, England, after enduring three weeks of a red, watery and light-sensitive eye. A dose of antibiotics for what was...

May 27, 2010

livescience.com writes: Science is powerful, but it cannot explain everything. . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Body/Mind Connection Medical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo effect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the...

May 26, 2010

People who want to see ghosts usually seek out spooky cemeteries or creepy houses. But what if you aren’t lucky (or unlucky) enough to live next to a dark old mansion or a deserted insane asylum? A good place to start is the top ten haunted places in America, where people have reported (and in some cases created) ghostly encounters. . . . . . . . 5 The...

May 26, 2010

Earlier this month two nurses in the town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib in northern Ontario, Canada, found a bizarre creature on a lakeshore while walking with their dog Sam. Sam sniffed at something dark and furry that was lying face down in the water, and promptly pulled out a strange beast unlike anything the pair had ever seen. It was a smallish creature about a...