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A woman's homemade juice led to life-threatening 'toxic squash syndrome'In the first reported case of its kind in Canada, a woman fell violently ill after consuming the juice of a bitter gourd.
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Milk leaking from woman's armpits revealed 'ectopic breasts'After giving birth, a woman noticed that she produced milk from both her mammary glands and her armpits.
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A baby suddenly started to smell of rotting fishA boy would stink of fish after eating certain dishes, and doctors found that the noxious odor likely stemmed from a rare genetic quirk.
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A toddler accidently ate gonorrhea bacteria from a lab dishIn a bizarre medical case published in 1984, a young boy was inadvertently exposed to an STI-causing bacteria in a lab dish.
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A woman's nausea was triggered by a huge mass in her stomach — which doctors dissolved with diet sodaA woman's abdominal discomfort turned out to be caused by a build up of food in her stomach. And the treatment involved diet soda.
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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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