Sudanese twins born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children’s hospital, officials said Sunday.
Facing the World, a charity which helps disfigured children, said it had helped fund the four-stage operation on 11-month-olds Rital and Ritag Gaboura. Twins born joined at the head are known as craniopagus twins and they occur in about one in 2.5 million births.
Separating them can be dangerous, especially if — as in this case — there’s significant blood flow between their brains.
Us e of hormones ans birth control pills that affect the hormones are the primary causes and use of these is dangerous for health.
Why do women today have bigger breasts?
Some experts say the boom in bust size may be explained by the popularity of cosmetic implants: 10,000 breast implants are carried out every year.
Significantly more women have breast enhancements than they do reductions: 2004 figures from a BUPA Hospital in Edinburgh show that of the 21-30 age group who had cosmetic surgery, 60 per cent opted for breast augmentation and only seven per cent wanted a breast reduction.
Other experts highlight the effect of hormones – breast tissue is extremely sensitive to these, with some women finding they need a bigger bra in the week leading up to a period. This is a major reason why the contraceptive pill – which also leads to fluid retention in the breast – has been linked to the increase in breast size.
“There is a tendency for the pill to stimulate breast growth,” says Professor Pierre-Marc Cilles Bouloux, a consultant endocrinologist and physician at The London Clinic. “However, modern versions of the pill contain far less oestrogen than their older counterparts, so it is not fair to attribute this shift in its entirety to the pill.”
The residual oestrogen that gets into the water supply from people on the pill is also thought by some to be a factor.
Other speculative theories include the suggestion that levels of artificial hormones in the foodchain could be affecting breast sizes, though there is no research to back this up. Foods from baked beans to almonds have also been touted as factors in increasing breast size, but this is speculative.
In fact, it seems that the most significant and likely explanation for our growing bust size is the simplest – bigger breasts is a result of weight gain all round. Since the 1950s, the average female waist has risen from 27.5in to 34in. So, is it any wonder that breasts are getting bigger too?
Almost Got Vietnamese Bikers Banned From the Roads
In 2008 the Vietnamese government was seriously considering banning all females whose chests measured less than 28 inches from riding their motorbikes on public roads. Allegedly this was a bid from the Ministry of Health aimed at making sure that the people behind the handlebars remain healthy, but it’s quite obvious that they were just trying to pressure the women into getting b00b jobs.
Breasts Can Become Bigger Via a Cellphone Ringtone
Speaking of smaller breasts from East Asia, it somehow seems appropriate that the inventor of the first noninvasive breast augmentation procedure that probably works, hails from Japan. For a number of years now Dr. Hideto Tomabechi has been preoccupied with 2 things: sounds and breasts, and in 2008 he combined his 2 passions into the “Rock Melon” – a ringtone which supposedly causes titties to gain in size if you just listen to it.
Sufficiently Big Melons Can Keep You Out of Prison.
In 2007 Serena Kozakura, 38, was convicted of property destruction after she allegedly kicked in the wooden doors to an unnamed man’s apartment and trashed it to hell. However, during a reenactment of the crime, Kozakura proved that the hole someone made in the door was way too small for her and her impressive 44-inch chest to crawl through.
Based on just that, the woman was acquitted. It’s probably safe to say she will never curse her massive knockers ever again after it turned out they are her own personal pair of top notch defense lawyers. Oh breasts, is there anything you cannot do?
Hooters Are Getting Huger.
A few years ago some UK researchers turned to the world and said “We have good news and we have better news”. The good news was that someone actually gave them money to study boob sizes around the world. The better news was that their findings showed that, worldwide, breasts are getting bigger and bigger.
Just in the UK alone, the average bra size had gone up from 34B to a way juicier 36C. As for the rest of the world, breast sizes had been continuously going up for the last 10-15 years, averaging now almost an entire cup bigger than just a decade ago. If this trend continues, someday we might actually need an M-cup bra size.
Plastic surgeries must have some part in this, but diet and lifestyles cannot be ignored. We definitely eat more and exercise less now, and all that fat has to go somewhere – the fact that it seems to be going mainly to breasts is the best evidence that God exists and that he loves us.
There Do Exist Women with Three Breasts.
3 of them
Or so we thought. Thanks to a wondrous example of life imitating art it turns out that some women can have 3 breasts. The medical condition is called “polymastia” or “supernumerary breasts” and works just like the superfluous nipple bit. Some supernumerary breasts (see, even science knows that those are “super”!) might not even make their presence known until puberty, that special time when a polymastic girl first starts to resemble a prostitute from a cheesy Sci-Fi movie.
Location wise, polymastia can manifest itself virtually anywhere on the front of the body, hopefully somewhere between the first and second b00b. So that’s one accurate prediction “Total Recall” has made. Now, where are our virtual reality machines?
Breast Implants Can Save Your Life.
In 2006 a women from the Bulgarian city of Ruse was in a pretty horrific car accidents that left both cars totaled. She and the other driver survived but in her case it was thanks solely to those bigger plastic tits which took upon themselves the force of the impact, rupturing right there on the spot and leaving the women alive, though heavily deflated.
If it wasn’t for them, the woman might have hit the steering wheel full on, damaging her internal organs and maybe even banging up her heart a little. This is an obvious sign that Evolution wants our women to have bigger knockers. Maybe later down the line car companies will get rid of airbags altogether and simply offer free b00b jobs to female drivers with each purchase.
Last week the FDA reported that breast implants put women’s lives in danger. The big news last week was that a small number of women can get a very rare type of cancer (ALCL: anaplastic large cell lymphoma). It confirmed that death is a possible side effect of breast implants.
But what no one is talking about are all the other more frequent, more common and very real dangers and problems that go along with breast implants. Does the FDA really believe that if we don’t kill too many women it’s acceptable to disfigure them and compromise women’s health in other less lethal ways?
Doctors have to take decisions under stress, though not apparent.
A doctor when performing his first surgery /first case will tell you that.
Over a period of time and practice, the stress is not visible;but it remains underneath.
A doctor is also a human being with his share of problems professionally and personally.
Fair percentage of Doctors work longer hours either because of their commitment or for financial reasons.
Thus they are deprived of their normal sleep and this could result in life threatening situations.
Doctors must get adequate sleep.
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While regulations have been put in place to restrict the work hours of doctors in training, no such regulations exist for fully trained physicians. An editorial in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine argues that sleep-deprived physicians should not be permitted to proceed with an elective surgery without a patient‘s informed, written consent.
People who are getting elective surgery should know how much sleep their doctors have had before going into the operating room, a medical journal editorial says.
Dr. Michael Nurok, an anesthesiologist and intensive-care physician at New York’sHospital for Special Surgery, argues in Thursday’s online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that patients should have a right to information on sleep-deprived doctors.
Patients should also be allowed to ask for another doctor or reschedule their surgery, Nurok said.
“The ideal solution here is that patients and surgeons never are put in the situation where an operation needs to happen when a surgeon is fatigued,” Nurok said in an interview with CBC Radio‘s As It Happens.
I have, in the past year,come across five cases when people went for a regular eye check up were informed that their eyeballs were on the verge of popping out and immediate surgery was warranted.They have undergone the surgery and are fine.
I understand there only a few hospitals that can perform this surgery.
Can some body enlighten me on the subject?
So far I have not come across such instances.
Another puzzling fact is those afflicted are different from each other in terms of location, age,sex,jobs, and other habits.
The common factor is all of them wear glasses.
All of them from no diseases nor or they diabetic ,hypertension patients.
Could be a Virus?
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When Your Eyeball Pops Out…
DO run around screaming. You might not be able to see the phone to dial 911 by yourself, so you’ll want to alert others to the fact that your eyeball just popped out of her head.
DON’T try to shove it back in. If you push the wrong part, you’ll make it worse. Plus, sometimes cool stuff happens—like your eyelid flipping back behind your cornea!—and you’ll want to traumatize everyone around you by forcing them to stare it for as long as possible.
DON’T worry about it falling and rolling away. It probably won’t even dangle! (Much.) The optic nerve will keep it in or near your eye socket.
When You Chop Your Finger Off…
DO rinse it off with cold water. Even disembodied hands need to be washed!
DON’T put it directly on ice. It will get an ice burn, and you won’t even notice because its nerve endings aren’t connected to your brain, anymore.
DO wrap it in a damp cloth, seal it in a ziploc baggie, and then put that baggie inside another baggie filled with ice cold water.
DON’T let anyone carry the finger to the hospital for you. Apparently husbands lose the finger or get stuck at a red light in their cars all the time, and then they have not only lost their loved ones’ fingers, but destroyed their marriages, too.
When You Knock a Tooth Out…
DO thank your lucky stars it wasn’t a popped-out eyeball or chopped-off finger. Seriously, did you read the other two sections? Your problems are nothing.
DO rinse it off with milk or water. If there is no milk or water available, lick and suck on it. I know that sounds weird, but it’s going back in your mouth eventually, anyway.
DON’T suck too vigorously, in case you swallow.
DO shove your knocked-out tooth back in the socket, so the squishy wet part is back in the gums where it belongs. If you can’t get it back in, or are too freaked out, hold it between your cheek and gums. Remember: No swallowing.
DO go to the dentist, now. When I first read this part I thought it was telling me I could just shove my teeth back in and they would be fine. In fact, you still need someone to sew you back together. [CNN, image via Shutterstock]
DON’T try to shove it back in. If you push the wrong part, you’ll make it worse. Plus, sometimes cool stuff happens—like your eyelid flipping back behind your 
DO rinse it off with cold water. Even disembodied hands need to be washed!
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