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Bret Michaels taking 'several months off to heal'

Poison star Bret Michaels will be taking the "next several months off" to focus on his recovery after undergoing kidney stone surgery.

BANG Premier · Aug 24

Brain Cancer Patients Vaccinated Against COVID Before Surgery Lived Twice as Long in a Preprint Analysis

A preprint of 187 glioblastoma patients links COVID vaccination within 100 days of surgery to doubled survival. It has not been peer-reviewed.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

Bret Michaels cancels all upcoming shows on doctor's orders. "I may have just chosen to go sooner than I should have"

Michaels played a comeback show on Friday after recent surgery but cannot go on

Louder · Aug 24

Spider Silk Is Being Tested as Surgical Sutures, Wound Dressings, and Biomedical Protein Material

The thread that outperforms steelA dragline silk thread spun by Nephila pilipes, the giant golden orb-weaver found across South and Southeast Asia, has a tensile strength of roughly 1.3 gigapascals, stronger than high-grade steel at a fraction of the weight. That single biological fact is what has made spider silk…

Times Life · Aug 22

'It's a no-brainer': How Danii raised $30,000 for critical cancer research

Danii couldn't have been happier watching her lustrous locks fall to the ground.

The Canberra Times · Aug 21

He Finished an Expiring Bag of Peanuts, and Surgeons Pulled 500 Milliliters of Them Out of His Small Intestine

A man in his 70s ate a large packet of peanuts before it expired and formed a phytobezoar that blocked his bowel and required emergency surgery.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones breaks silence on mysterious absence from show

Jones was absent from the show earlier this year for a similar reason

The Independent UK · Aug 21

Rahul Gandhi ends six-hour dharna after FIR registered over youth's pellet injuries

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi ended his over-six-hour dharna at Delhi’s Parliament Street police station on Friday after an FIR was registered over pellet injuries suffered by youth Sahil Lochab during the July 20 protest. Gandhi had demanded the case after Lochab sustained injuries to his eyes and abdomen and underwent…

The Economic Times · Aug 21

Woman Had Both Legs And Hands Amputated After Routine Surgery, And Her Reaction Moves People

Lucinda Mullins went in for kidney stone surgery and woke up without her legs, her hands or her forearms. Her response was peace. She has since built an accessible home, returned to work and passed a law. She said from the beginning that this was not a sad story. She…

Bored Panda · Aug 21

A Rare Breast Cancer Can Read as Probably Benign on a Mammogram, and Mastectomy Is Not the Treatment It Needs

Primary breast lymphoma is treated with chemotherapy, not surgery, and published cases show imaging repeatedly pointing clinicians the wrong way.

Medical Daily · Aug 21