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Diagnostic dilemma: A brain lesion gave a woman a lifetime of joyless laughing fitsA woman had experienced sudden bursts of uncontrolled laughter her whole life. A brain scan revealed why.
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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.
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Doctors restore a man's vision by removing his tooth and implanting it in his eyeA man underwent one of the first "tooth-in-eye" surgeries ever conducted in Canada. Only a few hundred people have had the surgery, worldwide.
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A knife broke off in a man's chest, and he didn't notice it for 8 yearsDiagnostic dilemma A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.
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A woman kept tasting bleach — and doctors found a hidden cause in her bloodA woman was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that also led to striking behavioral changes — namely, her craving the taste of powdered bleach.
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Woman's severe knee pain reveals 'golden threads' in her jointsA woman went to the hospital for severe joint pain in her knees, and an X-ray showed hundreds of strands of gold thread.
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Rare condition made a woman see people as dragonsA woman sought treatment for hallucinations she'd been experiencing since childhood, in which people's faces would morph into having dragon-like features.
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A man's preference for 'soft' bacon may have given him brain wormsA man in the U.S. reported worsening migraine symptoms. It turned out that a pork tapeworm had invaded his brain.
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Girl's dental trouble caused a life-threatening eye infectionA girl went to her dentist complaining of a toothache and swelling around her eye. It turned out the two problems were connected.
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