All articles tagged "health"
Baby born with two penises undergoes surgery in Russia 
12 Mar, 11:51 PM 17 comments
A baby born with two penises in Russia two weeks ago has undergone hours of complicated surgery
Court orders compensation to girl who swallowed dentist’s tool 
17 Mar, 11:20 PM 15 comments
A court in Russia’s Saratov Region has ruled that the girl who swallowed a dental file while having her teeth treated at the dentist’s,should be compensated for moral and physical damage.
Blind man to sue air carrier for discrimination 
19 Mar, 05:58 PM 29 comments
Russia’s S7 airways has refused to apologize and pay compensation to the disabled man which it refused to take aboard, forcing him to take the case to court.
Doctors sew back on self-castrator’s penis 
20 Mar, 03:13 PM 26 comments
A 37-year-old man cut off his penis with a pair of scissors after his girlfriend left him. Yet, he was lucky enough to have the organ sewn back on again at a hospital.
Boy survives after doctors remove 3-inch nail from his head 
20 Mar, 04:20 PM 16 comments
A 13-year-old boy was rescued after shooting a 3-inch long nail into his skull. He tried to take his life after an argument with his mother.
Russian medics say hadron collider can cure cancer 
2 Apr, 01:35 PM 8 comments
Up to 2,000 cancer patients can be cured annually by a hadron collider-based device developed by Russian researchers, spokesman for a Russian nuclear physics study center has said.
Crisis forces Ukraine to cut Chernobyl pensions 
9 Apr, 01:04 PM 7 comments
The global crisis may force the government of Ukraine to cut down on the number of people receiving compensation as the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
Russia outlaws “legal pot” herbal tobaccos 
10 Apr, 04:14 PM 15 comments
Russia’s chief sanitation doctor has banned the sales of smoking mixes containing salvia and other “legal pot” herbs, claiming that they cause psychosis.
5 cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung 
13 Apr, 11:35 PM 173 comments
A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing up blood.
Chinese girl's death on a train sparks SARS fears in Russia 
16 Apr, 12:31 PM 11 comments
The death of a Chinese woman on a Russian train from suspected SARS caused panic among the passengers and the media, and had 57 Chinese citizens taken off the train and put into hospital for examination.
Top Russian doctor calls tobacco producers assassins of nations 
23 Apr, 02:07 PM 9 comments
Russia’s top doctor has slammed tobacco producing companies as “an association of killers”, claiming that they treat Russians like a bunch of savages and are set on destroying its population.
Russian man survives drinking 8 bottles of vodka 
24 Apr, 05:34 PM 111 comments
A Russian man has miraculously survived drinking eight bottles of vodka. The percentage of alcohol in his blood was at least twice the lethal dose.
Russia examines all air passengers for swine flu symptoms 
27 Apr, 03:27 PM 9 comments
Russia has begun screening all passengers flying in from the Americas for symptoms of swine flu after an outbreak of the virus killed at least 20 people in Mexico and spread as far as New Zealand.
Russian scientist predicted swine flu pandemic in 2004 
28 Apr, 11:42 PM 10 comments
A Russian scientist predicted the deadly swine flu pandemic back in 2004, when he said the deadly bird flu was likely to mix with human flu virus in the organism of a pig and kill up to one billion people.
Man begs doctors to undo penis enlargement surgery 
4 May, 02:23 PM 70 comments
Just one month after undergoing a penis enlargement surgery, a patient of a Moscow plastic surgery clinic has asked the doctors to restore the original size of his penis.
Risk of swine flu persists in Russia - WHO 
4 May, 05:09 PM 7 comments
The risk of swine flu cases breaking out in Russia still persists, the Russian office of the World Health Organization has said in spite of no confirmed swine flu cases in the country.
Swine flu threat ridiculous, expert says 
5 May, 02:42 PM 5 comments
The epidemics of А/H1N1 influenza is in no way going to repeat the devastation caused by the Spanish influenza in the early twentieth century, when over 20 million people died of a flu pandemic, a top Russian doctor says.
Russia clears 6 US states to import pork, adds 2 more to banned list 
7 May, 10:53 PM 12 comments
Among the mounting swine flu pandemic fears, Russia has lifted ban on pork imports from six US states but added two new states to the banned list.
Russian man fasts 100 days on water and holy books 
13 May, 01:17 PM 23 comments
A 33-year-old Russian man has voluntarily fasted for 101 days, reading the Bible and the Koran.
Woman attacks husband's member with power drill for excessive spending 
18 May, 12:03 PM 13 comments
A Russian woman attacked her husband with an electric drill after learning that he had spent his salary on alcohol.
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