Daniel Restrepo often suffered seizures after he was shot in the head as a boy in Colombia; now authorities in Florida are calling his death a homicide caused by those 12-year-old wounds. picked by mandolinorange 7 months ago

Talk about being hardheaded! He didn't wake up until four hours after being hit. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

New bandages (edible too!), now in use by the military, and soon to be in stores, uses a derivative of chitin found in shellfish exoskeletons to stop bleeding quickly. Does not trigger allergies in people allergic to shellfish. picked by TheBlueFrog 1 year ago

Scientists identified a compound in human saliva that makes wound healing faster. picked by maxriter 17 hours ago

Scientists have poked, prodded, and x-rayed the 5,000-year-old mummy found in the Alps. They now think he was murdered. Poke & prod these clickable photo links to find out more. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

Field medics like them because they absorb a lot of blood, are sterile, packaged with an easy-to-use applicator and leave a "tail" so it's easy for doctors to remove. picked by suebe 11 months ago

She was caught stealing a few spinach leaves. picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago

I promise it'll be some of the most satisfying head you get all day. picked by punthe 1 year ago

When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. But, she's pulled through. picked by MandolinOrange 5 months ago

Follow up to Suebe's post three weeks ago... His cause of death has just been determined. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

Barack Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" on a local radio station yesterday wound up making waves from Huffington Post to YouTube to Larry King Live. picked by FastTurtle 4 months ago

The intromittent organ of male seed beetles is armed with sharp spines that puncture the genital tract of females during copulation. (try the links) picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

A South Carolina firefighter was spared a gunshot wound when a DVD in his pocket deflected the bullet. picked by MandolinOrange 5 months ago

Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor was in critical condition Monday after surgery for a gunshot wound to his leg during what police are investigating as a possible armed robbery at his home. picked by sholom22 8 months ago

Kurnaz, an ethnic Turk born and raised in Germany, went to Pakistan in late 2001 at age 19 to study Islam and wound up in Pakistani police custody. It was three months after 9/11, and Kurnaz says the U.S. was offering bounties for suspicious foreigners. Kurnaz says he was "sold" to the Americans for $3,000 and brought to Kandahar as terrorist suspect. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

The mom not only allowed the pit-bull mix to sleep in the baby's bed, but she didn't get medical help for the estimated 100 puncture wounds on the poor kid. picked by arsphidius 2 months ago

A woman so fed up with her cable television provider that she offered a body part as payment is suing the company after a copy of her check, including personal and financial information, wound up in cyberspace. picked by arsphidius 2 months ago

Police have confirmed that a man found dead in a paraglider crash Wednesday was Greg Kehl.
The crash did not kill Kehl. picked by deepcleanfun 10 months ago

Had to do an abdominal exploration for a stab wound this weekend. Interesting case, don't see those too often around here. That's what you get when you start drinking at 6 AM on Mother's day though.

*Warning* graphic surgery images - careful if you're eating, or have a weak stomach. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago