Once Was An Ordinary Girl

To describe the horror by the words is simply impossible. With this trash girl lived for 6 years. At age 11 it began to grow a tumor in her leg. Now the tumor weights 70 kg!

Cancer Survivor Makes Jewelry Out of Pills to Pay Off Medical Debt

61-year-old Susan Braig from Altadena is a cancer survivor who takes old pharmaceutical pills and tablets and mounts them on costume jewelry to create colorful necklaces, pendants, earrings and tiaras. She then sells them to help pay off her medical debt.

Susan Braig was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. “I bought my first round of medicine and it cost $500 out of my own pocket," she said. "I looked at the drugstore receipt and then at the little pills and wondered if they were precious gems."

World’s Hairiest Girl Celebrates Guinness Title

Supatra Sasuphan from Bangkok was previously shunned by her classmates and called her by names such as "Wolf Girl" and "Monkey Face". But now she finally has a reason to celebrate. The 11-year-old was awarded the title of "World's Hairiest Girl" by the Guinness World Records.

Story of a Strongest Man in World (9 Photos)

Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs. His father was so shocked that left the room to vomit. And his mother didn’t want to hold him until he was four months old.

Disability – So What? (16 Photos)

Jessica Cox suffered a rare birth defect and was born without any arms. None of the prenatal tests her mother took showed there was anything wrong with her.

And yet she was born with this rare congenital disease, but also with a great spirit. The psychology graduate can write, type, drive a car, brush her hair and talk on her phone simply using her feet.
Ms Cox, from Tuscon, Arizona, USA, is also a former dancer and double black belt in Tai Kwon-Do. She has a no-restrictions driving license, she flies planes and she can type 25 words a minute.

Two-legged miracle pig

Two-legged miracle pig

A 10-month-old pig, weighing more than 100 kilograms, totters along unaided on its only two trotters recently in Xincai county, Henan Province.

Wang Xihai, the pig's owner said his wife wanted to let the piglet die when she saw it was born with only two legs, but he persuaded her to let it live. "She thought it was disturbing, but I stopped her, considering that it was a life anyway."


Wang then taught the pig to balance and walk on its legs by lifting it by its tail and guiding and balancing it.

He's refused large financial offers from circuses to buy it since news of "strong pig" spread.

"The pig proved it has a strong will to live and I won't sell him no matter how much money is offered," Wang said.

Rare Disease – Progeria

Rare Disease – Progeria

This unfortunate fella is only 24 years old. He is suffering from the very rare disease called Progeria. Progeria is premature aging at early age. People who was born with this disease usually die as a teens. Leon Botha is very lucky (if I can tell that concerning his condition) to be 24 years old. No one knows for how long will he live. We can only hope that he will live long enough.

The boy with a snake tongue

The boy with a snake tongue

Forceps babies 'more likely to behave badly' while those born by Caesareans 'are calmer'

Babies born with the help of forceps or a suction cup are more likely to have emotional problems, research suggests.

The study reinforces previous findings that assisted delivery techniques produce high levels of stress hormones that may affect development.

The latest research also showed children born after a caesarean requested by their mother have fewer emotional and behavioural problems. In pre-school, they were found to be much less likely to suffer from anxiety, aggression and attention disorders.

The Chinese study found babies born with the aid of forceps were more likely to be aggressive as young children, but Caesarean babies were calmer

Premature babies 'feel more pain in later life'

Premature babies are more sensitive to pain than those born after a full-term pregnancy, a study has found.

Researchers say the weeks spent in hospital after birth undergoing painful treatments may leave a damaging impression on their brains.

The effects may to last into childhood, and maybe for their whole lives, they claim.

Experts claim premature babies are more sensitive to pain thanks to extra time spent in hospital undergoing treatment (file photo)

Meet the world's most premature baby boy: The incredible 'Tom Thumb', who at 25 weeks weighed less than a can of Coke

Meet the world's most premature baby boy: The incredible 'Tom Thumb', who at 25 weeks weighed less than a can of Coke 

This tiny baby is believed to be the world's most premature boy.

Born after a mere 25 weeks he is so small that the tape measure laid next to him is bigger than his limbs. He weighs a mere 9oz (275g) and from head to toe is the length of a sheet of A4 paper.

Doctors believe this makes him the most premature baby boy to have survived in the world and as a result of his size, the team treating him in Germany nicknamed him 'Tom Thumb'.

8-Limbed Boy Needs Surgery to Remove Parasitic Twin

Seven-year-old Deepak Paswaan was born with the arms, legs and buttocks of a parasitic twin protruding from his chest. To date, no X–rays or scans have been taken, so the internal effects of his condition are not known at this time.

4-year-old girl with a huge belly (19 Photos)

Chinese doctors could not find a reason for this anomaly. Belly girls began to grow ever since she was 8 months. Until doctors are sure that this is not a tumor.

Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost

In 1972, after a month of deliberation, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: a change to the Social Security Act that granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income.

It was a supremely hopeful moment. Although the technology to keep kidney patients alive through dialysis had arrived, it was still unattainable for all but a lucky few. At one hospital, a death panel — or “God committee” in the parlance of the time — was deciding who got it and who didn’t. The new program would help about 11,000 Americans, just for starters. For a modest initial price tag of $135 million, it would cover not only their dialysis and transplants, but all of their medical needs. Some consider it the closest that the United States has come to socialized medicine.

Now, almost four decades later, a program once envisioned as a model for a national health care system has evolved into a hulking monster. Taxpayers spend more than $20 billion a year to care for those on dialysis — about $77,000 per patient, more, by some accounts, than any other nation. Yet the United States continues to have one of the industrialized world’s highest mortality rates for dialysis care. Even taking into account differences in patient characteristics, studies suggest that if our system performed as well as Italy’s, or France’s, or Japan’s, thousands fewer patients would die each year.

Bizarre facts-Horrible tumors

Jose: the man with no face
Jose has one of the most extreme facial tumours ever seen in medical history. The 51-year-old, from Portugal, is in danger of being suffocated by it unless he undergoes drastic surgery. Unemployed, he is blind in one eye as a result of the giant weeping growth that has consumed his features; the tumour has taken over his mouth and tongue, ballooning his lips, twisting his gums and breaking his teeth off. The deep, 15cm long growth - which started as a birth mark when he was just 11 - was sparked by abnormalities in his capillaries and veins. It started to get much bigger when he hit 16 and has been expanding ever since. H e recently flew to the UK to discuss the possibility of surgery to remove part of the tumour. But because his mother was a Jehovah’s Witness, he refused any surgery because his religion means he can’t have blood transfusions. Doctors in London came up with a plan to remove parts of the growth bit by bit - without transfusion.

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