Doctors Find 44-Year-Old Fetus in
Woman, 84
Doctors in Brazil have removed a 44-year-old
foetus from an 84-year-old woman. It
was discovered when the woman’s intense stomach pains landed her in a hospital
in Tocantins state in Brazil. Subsequent
examinations revealed a ‘stone baby’, reported Daily Mail. A ‘stone baby’ is a rare phenomenon in
which the foetus grows and then dies outside of the uterus.
With the
body unable to rid itself of it, the dead foetus is instead covered in calcium
as a means of protection, resulting in the ‘stone baby’. The woman reportedly told doctors that
she became pregnant more than 40 years ago but suffered pain during the pregnancy,
and visited a healer for help.
After
taking what he had given her, ‘her stomach didn’t grow any more, the baby stopped
moving, and she thought it had been aborted’, a gynaecologist at the hospital
was quoted as saying. The
gynaecologist said X-rays revealed “the face, the bones of the arms, of the
legs, the ribs, and the spine” of the foetus, which is believed to have died at
between 20 and 28 weeks. The
woman reportedly told doctors she did not want the foetus removed
Source: http://health.india.com/news
19.02.2014
Meet Jangid —
a man who can hear without ears!
Jangid is a very unique
individual. He can hear and talk normally despite not having ears, well
external ears. To the outside world, it appears he has ears or a visible ear
canal but the man from Dausa in Rajasthan seems to have his middle and internal
hearing intact.
‘Of course, a human being
without pinnae (external ears) and hole can hear if his middle and internal
organs are fit. Such patient listens through bone conduction of skull but the
quality of voice heard might not be clear because there is absence of air
conduction,’ Dr Neeraj Kasliwal , head of ENT department at Fortis Hospital in
Jaipur told IBN.
A new implant Bone
Anchord Hearing Aid (BAHA) could be tried to improve the hearing ability and
plastic surgery could provide artificial pinnae, Kasliwal said. Daulatram
Jangid toldIBN: ‘I have this defect by birth and have no external pinnae
nor any hole.’ Jangid’s four siblings don’t have this defect but Jangid feels
he couldn’t get married because of this problem.
The Ear’s
Anatomical Structure
The ear can be broadly
divided into three structures – external, middle and internal. The outer ear is
also called the pinna and is made of cartilage and covered by skin. When you
hear something, sound travels through the pinna into the external auditory
canal which essentially is a short tube that ends at the eardrum. Basically,
sound causes the eardrum to vibrate and the vibrations are conducted to the
cochlea which part of the inner ear whose purpose is to transform sound into
nerve impulses that travel to the brain.
Source: http://health.india.com/news
19.02.2014
Coming soon —
a cure for blindness?
An Indian-origin
scientist has discovered an ultra-thin layer hidden deep in the eye that can
help treat glaucoma, thus taking a step closer to curing blindness caused by
the ocular disorder.
Harminder Dua, a
professor at Nottingham University, has discovered how a new layer in the human
cornea plays a vital role in the structure of the tissue that controls the flow
of fluid from the eye, a university press release stated.
The findings, published
in the British Journal of Ophthalmology,
could shed new light on glaucoma, a disease normally associated with increased
fluid pressure in the eye which can lead to blindness if left untreated.
The new layer, dubbed as
Dua’s Layer, is considered an important contribution to medical science.
Source: http://health.india.com/news
19.02.2014
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makes you feel bad leave it, whatever makes you smile keep it
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