HISTORICAL FACTS: 21 | History Defined

Eight Months of Failed Treatment Ended When Doctors Finally Asked This Man About His Job

A man who handled fish had arm ulcers for 8 months. Repeated courses of antibiotics and surgery failed until testing identified Mycobacterium marinum.

Medical Daily · Aug 26

Raiders star pushing for Cup despite dodgy shoulder

Simi Sasagi isn't ruling out playing for Samoa at the Rugby League World Cup despite dealing with a persistent shoulder injury that requires surgery.

AAP · Aug 26

Twenty Years of Uncontrolled Seizures Traced to a Brain Cyst Doctors Are Trained to Ignore

A 35-year-old woman became seizure-free after temporal lobe surgery beside a choroidal fissure cyst, a finding usually dismissed as incidental.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

Nine Children Got a Living Growth Plate to Rebuild Bone, and One Graft Broke 15 Years Later

Nine children got a living growth plate transplanted to rebuild bone after tumor surgery. Every graft thickened, but eight had complications.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

Three Months of Blood Thinners Did Nothing Because the Clot Blocking His Lungs Was Never a Clot

A 38-year-old man got three months of blood thinners for a saddle pulmonary embolism. Surgery revealed the blockage was an aggressive sarcoma.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

An Injury to Her Blind Eye Set Her Immune System Against the Only Eye She Could See

Ten weeks after surgery on a long-blind eye, a woman's immune system attacked her only working eye, on top of severe diabetic retinopathy.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

His Blood Pressure Hit 210 Over 140, and the Cause Was a Hormone-Making Tumor Inside His Heart

A 23-year-old's blood pressure hit 210/140. Surgeons in China found a hormone-secreting tumor in his heart and embolized it before cutting.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

Poison star cancels solo tour after kidney stone surgery

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The Independent UK · Aug 25

Rock frontman forced to cancel tour after undergoing surgery for painful condition

Rock singer said he hoped he would return to health ‘sooner rather than later’

The Independent UK · Aug 25

Simon Cowell to miss out on America's Got Talent filming after e-bike collision surgery

Six years on, the music mogul is still dealing with the effects of the fall, which almost left him paralysed

Evening Standard · Aug 25