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February 10, 2008
Volkmer BG, Maier S. Successful penile replantation following autoamputation: twice! Int J Impot Res. 2002 Jun;14(3):197-8.
The particularly impressive part for me is that he was able to get it up even after the second replantation.
In related news, check out this fascinating review article on…
February 6, 2008
Marneros A, Gutmann P, Uhlmann F. Self-amputation of penis and tongue after use of Angel's Trumpet. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Oct;256(7):458-9. Epub 2006 Jun 16.
Kids, this is why you should just bite the bullet and fork out the necessary cash for some quality bud instead of cheaping…
February 5, 2008
Arya CL, Gupta R, Arora VK. Accidental condom inhalation. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2004 Jan-Mar;46(1):55-8.
Sounds like either someone was a little too enthusiastic or someone else was a little too small. Oh, snap!
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Morineau G, Prybylski D, Song N, Natpratan C, Neilsen G. Simultaneous Use…
February 4, 2008
Nakaguchi H, Matsuno A, Teraoka A. Prediction of the incidence of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage from meteorological data. Int J Biometeorol. 2008 Jan 8; [Epub ahead of print]
Changes in the weather can make your head (read: blood vessels in your brain) explode (read: rupture)!
It's like…
February 2, 2008
Kuijpers HJ, van der Heijden FM, Tuinier S, Verhoeven WM. Meditation-Induced Psychosis. Psychopathology. 2007 Sep 11;40(6):461-464
Please correct me if I've been misinformed here, but isn't meditation supposed to help you chill out, not make you go nuts? Although I guess if your mantra was 'Must…
January 30, 2008
Santucci RA, Deng D, Carney J. Removal of metal penile foreign body with a widely available emergency-medical-services-provided air-driven grinder.
Urology. 2004 Jun;63(6):1183-4.
Dude! Remember that one time when they had to remove that barbell from my dick with an air grinder? That was so sick…
January 28, 2008
Shah J, Majed A, Rosin D. Rectal salami. Int J Clin Pract. 2002 Sep;56(7):558-9.
You have no idea how hard I'm fighting the urge to make a 'hide the salami' joke right now.
January 26, 2008
Wiederman MW. Pretending orgasm during sexual intercourse: correlates in a sample of young adult women. J Sex Marital Ther. 1997 Summer;23(2):131-9.
Here we go: "Overall, more than one-half of the women reported having pretended orgasm during sexual intercourse."
Please discuss how this makes you…
January 25, 2008
The following are the most disgusting papers on necrophilia that I could, uh, dig up. Enjoy!
Ehrlich E, Rothschild MA, Pluisch F, Schneider V. An extreme case of necrophilia. Leg Med (Tokyo). 2000 Dec;2(4):224-6.
Schlesinger LB. Adolescent sexual matricide following repetitive mother-son incest. J…
January 24, 2008
Ofran Y, Lavi D, Opher D, Weiss TA, Elinav E. Fatal voluntary salt intake resulting in the highest ever documented sodium plasma level in adults (255 mmol L-1): a disorder linked to female gender and psychiatric disorders. J Intern Med. 2004 Dec;256(6):525-8. Review.
A 20-year-old woman suffering…
January 23, 2008
Ribeiro JP, Marcelino P, Marum S, Fernandes AP, Grilo A. Case report: purple urine bag syndrome. Crit Care. 2004 Jun;8(3):R137. Epub 2004 Mar 31.
I'm starting a petition to change it's name to purple urine bag efflorescing syndrome.
Heh.
January 21, 2008
Hadi HI, Quah HM, Maw A. A missing tongue stud: an unusual appendicular foreign body. Int Surg. 2006 Mar-Apr;91(2):87-9.
Mmm...appendicitis.
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Das G, Rawal N, Bolton LM. The case of the missing "Prince Albert". Obstet Gynecol. 2005 May;105(5 Pt 2):1273-5.
Okay, can someone attempt to explain to…
January 18, 2008
Losanoff JE, Kjossev KT. Gastrointestinal 'crosses'. A new shade from an old palette. Arch Surg. 1996 Feb;131(2):166-9.
Okay, so within a single week in January of 1993, five male prisoners from the same Bulgarian prison were hospitalized with perforations of their gastrointestinal tracts. The…
January 16, 2008
Gü;ndüz K, Celenk P, Kayipmaz S. An unusual foreign body (suturing needle) in the tonsillar region. J Contemp Dent Pract. 2004 Nov 15;5(4):148-54.
There's an awful lot of these.
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Kominami M, Fujikawa A, Tamura T, Naoi Y, Horikawa O. Retained surgical sponge in the thigh: report of the…
January 15, 2008
Smith LJ, Mulhall JP, Deveci S, Monaghan N, Reid MC. Sex after seventy: a pilot study of sexual function in older persons. J Sex Med. 2007 Sep;4(5):1247-53.
Eww, grandparent sex. Given that the study reported 18% of the women and 41% of the men were sexually active, there's potentially lots of old…
January 14, 2008
Toquero L, Briggs CD, Bassuini MM, Rochester JR. Anal ulceration associated with Nicorandil: case series and review of the literature. Colorectal Dis. 2006 Oct;8(8):717-20. Review.
Worst adverse drug effect ever. Well, besides miscarriage or toxic epidermal necrolysis. Those suck pretty hard.
January 11, 2008
Fain DB, McCormick GM. Vaginal "fisting" as a cause of death. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1989 Mar;10(1):73-5.
It's too old to find online, so allow me to summarize the short abstract: Guy and girl are fooling around, guy sticks entire hand and part of forearm up girl's vagina, girl subsequently…
January 10, 2008
Wang Z, Leonard MH Jr, Khamapirad T, Castro CY. Bilateral extensive ductitis obliterans manifested by bloody nipple discharge in a patient with long-term diabetes mellitus. Breast J. 2007 Nov-Dec;13(6):599-602.
My girlfriend just informed me that if she had a band, she'd totally name it Bloody…
January 8, 2008
Hi everyone. First off, thanks for all of the encouraging comments and emails! I'm excited to be blogging here at ScienceBlogs, and I hope I can bring a little bit of humour and general silliness to the proceedings.
I realize that my RSS feed is currently not working, but the right people have been…
January 8, 2008
Ovchinnikov MM, PodgornyÄ GN, BalakhovskiÄ IS. [Quantitative ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectrophotometric analysis] Klin Lab Diagn. 2002 Feb;(2):6-11. Review. Russian.
Read the abstract. I'm fairly confident they meant Beer. And Bouguer.
And yes, I totally found this via PubMed by…
January 7, 2008
Etter JF. Addiction to the nicotine gum in never smokers. BMC Public Health. 2007 Jul 17;7:159.
What, got tired of chewing regular gum? Nothing like paying more for nicotine-laced candy that you have to buy at a drug store and follow directions to use properly, no sir.
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DeFuentes-Merillas L,…
January 3, 2008
Ruan X, Couch JP, Shah RV, Liu H, Wang F, Chiravuri S. Priapism--a rare complication following continuous epidural morphine and bupivacaine infusion. Pain Physician. 2007 Sep;10(5):707-11.
A guy named Wang writes a paper on priapism. All is well and good in the world.
December 24, 2007
Maas RP, Patch SC, Pandolfo TJ. Artificial Christmas trees: how real are the lead exposure risks? J Environ Health. 2004 Dec;67(5):20-4, 32.
Spectacularly real, if you're a little kid. Neurotoxicity and neural development don't mix, yo. A live tree might be more expensive, messier, and require…