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Diagnostic dilemma: A brain lesion gave a woman a lifetime of joyless laughing fits
A woman had experienced sudden bursts of uncontrolled laughter her whole life. A brain scan revealed why.
A woman got unusual bruising from a massage gun. It turned out she had scurvy.
A woman bruising her leg with a massage gun set off a medical odyssey that revealed scurvy, a disease seen fairly rarely in modern America.
Doctors restore a man's vision by removing his tooth and implanting it in his eye
A man underwent one of the first "tooth-in-eye" surgeries ever conducted in Canada. Only a few hundred people have had the surgery, worldwide.
A knife broke off in a man's chest, and he didn't notice it for 8 years
Diagnostic dilemma A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.
A woman kept tasting bleach — and doctors found a hidden cause in her blood
A woman was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that also led to striking behavioral changes — namely, her craving the taste of powdered bleach.
Woman's severe knee pain reveals 'golden threads' in her joints
A woman went to the hospital for severe joint pain in her knees, and an X-ray showed hundreds of strands of gold thread.
Rare condition made a woman see people as dragons
A woman sought treatment for hallucinations she'd been experiencing since childhood, in which people's faces would morph into having dragon-like features.
A man's preference for 'soft' bacon may have given him brain worms
A man in the U.S. reported worsening migraine symptoms. It turned out that a pork tapeworm had invaded his brain.
