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December 18, 2018

Texas prison allowed flesh-eating infection to 'eat away' at inmate's arm, lawsuit claims

A 37-year-old man who was sentenced to six months in prison on drug charges in 2016 is suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice over claims that nobody could take him to the hospital for a flesh-eating bacteria infection that was eating away at his arm due to staff shortages.

December 18, 2018

Tennessee dad faces fatal, untreatable illness as family hopes for cure

A Tennessee father who was given a year to live after being diagnosed with an extremely rare degenerative illness now requires 24-hour care at a nursing facility as his family hopes for a cure for the currently untreatable condition.

December 18, 2018

Man who sniffs dirty socks daily hospitalized with fungal infection in lungs, reports say

A man in China who reportedly sniffed his dirty socks each day learned the hard way that this habit is apparently a health danger.

December 17, 2018

St. Louis woman, 18, serenaded by Jason Mraz dies while waiting for new lungs

A Kansas teen with cystic fibrosis who was recently serenaded by Jason Mraz died while awaiting a new pair of lungs.

December 12, 2018

Dad claims food poisoning led to rare paralyzing disorder

A gym-mad dad was paralyzed from the nose down by a rare immune disorder triggered by a chicken curry meal.

December 11, 2018

Boy, 6, diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria after positive strep test

A 6-year-old boy in Mississippi is fighting for his life after a flesh-eating bacteria infection sneakily spread through his legs for days.

December 6, 2018

Man coughs up part of lung while being treated for heart failure

A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. 

December 5, 2018

Man's eyes, neck swell in bizarre reaction to hair dye

A man feared he was going blind after his head doubled in size when he had a bizarre extreme reaction to hair dye.

December 5, 2018

Trip to chiropractor led to brain cyst discovery, woman says

A women's chiropractic procedure to manipulate her neck may have inadvertently led doctors to discover a large cyst in her brain that had likely been there for decades.

December 4, 2018

Cases of ‘polio-like’ illness that’s paralyzing children appears to have ‘peaked,’ CDC says

Cases of a rare illness called Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) that has affected more than a hundred Americans this year appears to have peaked, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday.