Some idiot who calls themselves a pharmasist at a CVS in New York put a customer in the hospital after giving her the wrong medicine. The pharmasist gave the woman leukemia medicine in a dose higher than a person would take if they did have leukemia.  The woman is now being treated at her local hospital.

[Bad Drugs via Consumerist]

You should always check to make sure the medicines you get are the medicines you’re prescribed. Dorothy Enriquez learned this lesson the hard way when she began taking the leukemia drugs that CVS gave her instead of her actual prescription. Not only did the pharmacy give her the wrong drug, but at several times the recommended dose for someone who actually has leukemia.

She took the drugs because she thought she’d been given a generic for her normal prescription, but when she started feeling ill, she called CVS and asked them about the strange new drug. They told her it wasn’t a generic for her usual prescription, but they did offer to refill it for her. Finally, Dorothy looked up the drug on the internet. That’s when she found out it was a powerful chemotherapy drug.

Ms. Enriquez ended up in the hospital, and CVS ended up in Fox 5, New York’s “Hall of Shame.” Fox 5 went to the CVS with their camera crew and tried to interview the pharmacist who made the mistake. He wasn’t willing to talk, but they did notice that he was supervising more assistants than is allowed by law. When they asked him about the violation he smiled and answered, “You’re good!”

A Vietnamese girl with a 17-pound facial tumor is awaiting life-saving surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak.

Lai Thi Dao, 15, suffers from a Schwannoma tumor that has been growing since she was 3. The tumor has severely disfigured her face and kept her from attending school.

"She had been with no treatment for the last 10 years," said Dr. Jesus Gomez, who is performing the surgery. "Something that started like a small black bean at the tongue now has become this huge tumor." 

The tumor is scheduled to be removed in a 10-hour surgery April 29.

The International Kids Fund is trying to raise money to help pay for her surgery.

To make a tax-deductible donation, send a check or money order payable to the International Kids Fund at:

International Kids Fund
Re: Lai Thi Dao
P.O. Box 2020
Miami, FL 33101
1-877-IKF-KIDS

[Tumor via Local10]

Art major Aliza Shvarts artificially inseminated herself just to giver herself an abortion.  She is calling it Art.

From Yale Daily News

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

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SAN DIEGO – A homeless amputee was beaten to death with his own crutch Monday night on a downtown sidewalk.

Several witnesses reported that the 41-year-old victim had gotten into an argument with another man on F Street near Eighth Avenue in the Core-Columbia neighborhood just before midnight, homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said.

During the fight the man picked up the victim’s crutch and hit him with it, said Rooney.

Paramedics tried to revive him but he died about a hour later at a trauma center.

The attacker was described as Latino and in his 30s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 170 pounds with a mustache and a sparse beard, Rooney said.

He was last seen near Seventh Avenue and G Street.

Police said they don’t know why the men were arguing, if they knew each other or the motive for the attack.
The dead man’s name has not yet been released. Rooney said he had an amputated leg and used a wheelchair but also was able to stand. He was standing when he was hit with the crutch, he said.

The man was known to stay in an alcove in front of the building where the fight took place.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

[Homeless Beating via Perez Hilton]

A Vancouver boy had a butter knife pulled from his head at a hospital Sunday.

Tyler Hemmert said he and a friend were sitting on a park bench when another boy became angry with them and threw a knife at them.

“When he threw it, we both ducked,” said Nate Leach, Tyler’s friend. “… It just stuck him in the head.”

The butter knife became lodged in Tyler’s head between his scalp and skull. “It, like, stung like a bee for a while,” Tyler said.

Tyler went to a nearby house for help and his friend ran several blocks to tell Tyler’s father.

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A man dubbed ‘iTree Man of Java’ is planning to get married after 4lb of bark were cut away.

Dede Koswara, 37, says he plans to get hitched now that he can use his hands and walk without pain.

Speaking from an Indonesian hospital, he told the Daily Telegraph website: "What I really want first is to get better and find a job. But then, one day, who knows? I might meet a girl and get married."

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SAINI SUNPURA, India - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.

The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali’s facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.

"My daughter is fine — like any other child," said Vinod Singh, 23, a poor farm worker.

[Two Face via MSNBC ]

A Danish organizations has rented spots that could hold a total of 45 urns specifically for gays and lesbians.  The spots go for about $565.  The area is separated from the rest of the cemetery by a large triangle of pebbles on the group, with a huge rock on one of the angles.

"We founded an association called Regnbuen (Rainbow) and our goal is that gays and lesbians can be buried next to each other,” Ivan Larsen said.

"The triangle is our old symbol, but it is also a sign of suffering,” Mr Larsen said.

The rainbow flag, a universal symbol for homosexuals representing diversity, would be placed on the rock, he said.

"We don’t want to isolate ourselves but we also feel a need to be together. We see this as a family grave, one that will be taken care of by our family,” said Mr Larsen.

[Gay Grave via News.com.au]

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) — Gertrude Baines, one of the world’s oldest women, celebrated her 114th birthday this week at a convalescent center in Los Angeles.

Baines, born near Atlanta in 1894, said she never consumed alcohol or smoked, but regularly eats bacon with her breakfast, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

"I eat bacon, toast — I like all kinds of food. If it tastes good, I eat it. If it doesn’t taste good, I don’t eat it," she told the newspaper.

[Third-Oldest via Politicalgateway]

I was sent this one from the Internet  magazine BMEzine.com.  The story is about a man who always wanted his nose to be removed.  I’m not sure why he would want to do this, but after being turned down by multiple plastic surgeons, he finally got the nose he always wanted.

BME: Why did you want your nose removed?

WITZ: I don’t know, ever since I was a kid I imagined it. I don’t know if they have anything to do with it, because it’s the chicken and the egg, you know, but two things stand out. First, I remember watching Sesame Street episodes when I was very young, where Bert and Ernie would take their noses off, and it just really stuck with me, and I wished I could play that game… That, and my uncle always played “got your nose” with me and it was something I really remember fondly.

 

[Got Your Nose via BMEzine]

A man in New Zealand was knocked off of his toilet when a SUV plowed through the wall of his house and into his bathroom. The vehicle had been parked by a local builder on an embankment nearby when it is thought that the Brakes failed and the SUV began to roll.

The man who owned the SUV was not present during the accident. He came back to find his vehicle missing and a new hole in the neighbor’s house. Great quote after the jump.
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