Amusement parks are supposed to be a fun break from sweaty summer days, letting you kick back and enjoy yourself before returning to the real world. One Pennsylvania man now claims that his experience at a Kennywood amusement park was anything but, and that not only did he leave without a smile on his face, …
It happens to the best of us: There you are, with a months-long stomach ache that you just can’t shake, so you head to the doctor who says you probably have food poisoning. You get a simple x-ray just to be sure and the doctors discover it’s not a bad breakfast or spoiled supper that’s …
Stem cell research has been a hotly debated issue for years already, but groundbreaking work utilizing stem-cell-grown human brain tissue is about to challenge even the most lax definitions of medical ethics. Two groups of researchers are poised to present their work regarding the implantation of human “mini brains” into rodents, and the potentially horrifying …
We rely on doctors to take care of us and figure out what’s wrong with us when we’re not feeling 100%, but what happens when a doctor gets sick? Well, in most cases, they just go to another doctor, but that wasn’t quite what vascular surgeon John Martin had in mind. Instead, he used an …
Human surgeons are some of the most skilled, precise individuals on the planet, but no amount of training and experience can make them better at slicing human flesh than robots already are. A new study aimed at comparing the steady hand of a human surgeon against the cold precision of the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot …
In the not-so-distant future, AI-controlled robots will almost certainly enslave humanity and make us all wish we could go back to the stone age, but for now, they’re actually pretty helpful machines. In fact, they’re even saving human lives in entirely new ways, and surgeons from the Maastricht University Medical Center in The Netherlands completed …
Unless you’re getting the name of a Tinder date you’ve only see twice permanently inked on your body, tattoos are usually pretty harmless. Sure, they’re going to look like a total mess when you’re older, but who cares, right? Live in the moment! That is, unless you’re thinking about getting a sclera tattoo, because as …
Imagine going under the surgeon’s knife to have a lung tumor removed, only to wake up and discover that you never had cancer at all. Quite a nice surprise right? That’s exactly what happened to a 47-year-old male patient at the Royal Preston Hospital in the UK. The “tumor” as it turned out, was actually …
Unlike many toy fads that come and go, Nerf guns have withstood the test of time. Whether it’s the bright colors and comically oversized darts, rockets, and “bullets,” they fire, or simply mankind’s self-destructive nature, kids have loved the quirky plastic firearms for decades. Now, doctors in London are warning that Nerf guns are actually …
