A blind man from Minnesota was able to see his wife for the first time in 10 years, after receiving a bionic eye. Allen Zderad, aged 68, was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease about 20 years ago, which eventually left him completely blind. But a clinic in Minnesota managed to turn back the time […]
A baby who was born with no heartbeat came back to life after eight remarkable minutes. Doctors consider little Theo Babbage a true medical miracle. The baby was brought into the world by emergency Caesarean section. Theo was born lifeless, but remarkably, doctors were able to resuscitate him after eight long minutes. Theo’s mom recalled […]
A young woman in the UK found out she was suffering from a strange disease in an unexpected way. Although she was eating normally, the student kept gaining weight. In her freshman year alone she doubled her body weight. At first, Kate Archibald failed to understand what was happening to her. But one morning when […]
Samantha Wake, a student aged 20 years in the UK, has obsessive compulsive disorder. This means she spends up to six hours a day picking her skin until it bleeds. The teenage girl is unable to control herself when she detects even a minor blemish. She enters a trance-like state and starts squeezing her pimples […]
Richie Lopez was diagnosed with Anophthalmia which can be described as a congenital absence of one or both eyes. Richie’s mother discovered her baby boy has no eyes after nearly two weeks after giving birth. When the boy was born, doctors thought his eyelids are just swollen. An MRI would later reveal that he was […]
Two twin sisters in Britain have been fighting with anorexia for the past 20 years. Maria and Katy Campbell were only 16 years old when they heard their father saying this to their mother: “The girls are starting to turn into women, huh? They already have hips”. Dad’s innocent statement triggered the twin’s obsession to […]
At the age of 22, this young woman from the UK battles a rare metabolic disorder. The disease is called Trimethylaminuria, or fish odor syndrome. As the name suggests it, this condition causes certain chemicals to build up in the body before it is released in urine, sweat and even breathe which reek of rotting […]