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Health
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Astronauts Aboard Atlantis To Experiment With Urine-Recycling Sports Drink
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Taking the Bear Grylls survival lifestyle to the next level, a crew member of the final space shuttle mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis, which departed on Friday, will reportedly be testing out a new system designed to turn urine into a sugary-flavoured sports drink.
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Local Healthcare Fail: Patients Infected With Lice Found Sleeping On Hospital Floor
08 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sicelo Gqobana, visited a psychiatric hospital in Queenstown this week. There he found patients infected with lice, as “warm water was not available.” Others were even sleeping naked on the floor due to “linen shortages.” But when Gqobana looked in the cupboards, guess what he found? Clean and unused linen! Those found to be in charge were handed letters of intended suspension.
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Cleaner Teeth + Common Sense = More Babies
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This article is not about pediatric math equations. Promise. It’s about an Australian study that shows a link between gum disease and poor fertility, with a little comparison to obesity thrown in as well. Read on if you forgot to floss this morning ladies.
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Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed?
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Personally, I took Shakespeare as more of an opium den kind of a guy, but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be the first to admit that. Anyway, a South African anthropologist from Wits University has set in motion a request to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed them.
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Woman Dies Of Heart Attack At Own Funeral
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s bizarre enough when a person is declared dead for whatever reason, but then somehow miraculously wakes up from this death to surprise everyone. Obviously, it isn’t the kind of thing that happens very often. Now, a Russian woman has had a heart attack at her own funeral upon waking up and seeing the mourners that were attending it.
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We Say Crocodile. Drug Addicts Say Krokodil – Enter Russia’s New Designer Drug
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Americans put them in pies, Africans make them into bags and now, Russians turn into them. The drug, a mixture of codeine, petrol and paint thinners, is injected and actually turns your skin scaly and green like that of a crocodile. It also bursts blood vessels and results in amputation. Dodgy.
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Deep-Fried Cherry Kool-Aid Balls: What Does Your Heart Attack Taste Like?
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you don’t know what Kool-Aid is, it’s the American equivalent of Oros, only with a shit ton of sugar and an abundance of magical E numbers. If the American Heart Association had hitmen, the guy who invented this snack would be at the top of their list. But really, he loves deep-frying so much that you can actually see the excitement in his eyes.
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Man Narrowly Escapes Jail After Shooting Wart Off Finger With Shotgun
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, English security guard Sean Murphy thought it was a good idea to blast off his wart with a shotgun, and in the process, his own finger too. Murphy decided to use a 12-bore Beretta at a Doncaster garden centre to consign the wart to history, along with most of the middle finger on his left hand.
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India’s Executions On Hold Because Last Living Hangman Has Broken Arm
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There seems to be no shortage of farmers, businessmen, snake charmers, off-shore call centres and Bollywood movie stars among the world’s second most populous nation of 1.2 billion people. But, they don’t have a single professional hangman left in the whole country who is able to carry out the capital punishment.
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Swine Flu Returns To Gauteng, Over 100 Treated Already
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Beeld newspaper this morning reported that a Johannesburg school will be closed for a week after a break-out of mumps and swine flu. The King’s School, situated in the Sandton suburb of Linbro Park stopped classes last week after about six pupils contracted mumps and another two swine flu, said the school’s principal John Pilkington.
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They’re Planning The World’s First Womb Transplant
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eva Ottosson, 56, plans to donate her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter Sarah, who was born without one. This will be the second such procedure attempted, and, if successful, Sarah will carry a fetus in the same womb that once held her. The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden.The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden. Matryoshka dolls.
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Naked Hiking: Germany And Switzerland Debate Nude-Friendly Nature Trails
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A hiking trail for nudists opened about a year ago near the town of Dankerode, Germany, about 320 kilometres west of Berlin. The trail was an instant hit and also saw one open in Switzerland, where the issue of nude hiking will soon be taken up by the Supreme Court. Nude Hiking Day coincidentally takes place on June 21.
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Woman Sues Mpumalanga Hospital For R7 Million
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mother is suing the Mpumalanga department of health for negligence on the part of the hospital which delivered her son, to the tune of R7-million. The boy suffered severe injuries during birth. He is now eight years old.
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Prison Inmate Sues For Sex Change After Failed Castration
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a seriously bizarre story, a Virginia inmate, named Ophelia De’lonta, is suing the US Federal Government for the right to have a sex change after “she” failed on numerous occasions to castrate herself.
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Patient (Pretty Much) Cured Of Aids
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man who suffered from both Leukaemia and HIV seems to have been cured of HIV, after he received a unique type of bone marrow transplant.
Seriously. Check it out…
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World Health Organisation Warns E-coli Outbreak Is New Toxic Strain
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been handing out the warnings lately. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that what’s been happening across northern Europe is actually becoming quite a dangerous problem. It’s reported that the E-coli bacteria responsible for the deaths of 18 people so far is from a strain “never seen before” in an outbreak.
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Meet The Mother Of The Year Who Smoked 3500 Cigarettes During Pregnancy
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Mother Of The Year title so far for 2011 has to go to this young lass from the UK. She just gave birth to a premature and underweight baby, who also endured carbon monoxide levels SIX TIMES higher than the level considered safe for a baby before birth. Why? Because mum smoked 3 500 cigarettes during pregnancy. Read her priceless reasoning behind it inside.
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A Frail Ratko Mladic Appears In Court [VIDEO]
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This raw video shows the court appearance of a distinctly frail Ratko Mladic, following his arrest yesterday in Serbia. Doctors are discussing whether the Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive is fit for extradition. He sure isn’t a picture of health in this footage.
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It Turns Out Vuvuzelas Are Also Really Good At Spreading Germs
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not only do vuvuzelas make sporting matches sound like they’re being attended by giant, angry bees, but they also emit more germ-carrying particles than regular screaming; testing the amount of bacteria-sized particles emitted by a shout and by vuvuzela,researcher Ruth McNerney found the vuvuzelas a couple of hundred times more effective.
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The Link Between Bowel Cancer And Red Meat Consumption – Let’s Have That Chat
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A scary new report, described as “the most authoritative ever”, is about to be released and will confirm the link between red meat and developing bowel cancer. How authoritative? It is part of a whopping compilation of 749 scientific papers, overseen by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research. Dear vegetarians: got room for one more?
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Paseka Motsoeneng, The Biscuit Pastor
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 179 Comments
Two Sunday World journalists reported on Sunday that they saw a church leader, and self-styled prophet, Paseka Motsoeneng, insert his fingers into the vaginas of two female congregants as part of a ritual he performed to expel the demons that had allegedly possessed their “biscuits”. The pastor also has a television show on Soweto TV on DSTV channel 150.
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World’s Oldest Man Turns 114
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Jiroemon Kimura is the oldest man on earth, and he celebrated his 114th birthday yesterday. Jiroemon has seven children, of whom five are still alive, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. Respect!
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Kiss Maleria Goodbye [Video]
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you care about people dying of malaria (which you should, and if you don’t, you may want to review your pulse, or your existence), then take one minute to watch this delightful video, featuring Cape Town’s beloved Snoddie.
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The Marijuana Carbon Footprint
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, that grass might not be that green after all. A researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has revealed in a report entitled “Energy up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production” that indoor growers account for approximately one percent of total US electricity use.
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Shrien Dewani Arrested After “Heated Discussion” With Fellow Mental Hospital Patient
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shrien Dewani’s multi-week tenure at Priory Hospital for treatment following a suicide attempt, has come to an end. Dewani has been moved to a “stricter” mental health facility, after he engaged in a “heated discussion” with a female patient.
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Level Five Becomes Level Seven – The Reality Of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis [VIDEO]
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As reported in morning spice headlines this morning, Japan has decided to raise its assessment of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating on an international scale: from a level five to a level seven, putting the disaster on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion in the former Soviet Union.
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Scared Of Heights? Take This Pill
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s safe to say that tests are still in their early stages but it’s also safe to say that scientists are quite a bit closer to helping people overcome their fear of heights. They have discovered that by giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol, they can help reduce their phobia.
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A Philosophical Treatise On Man Flu – Sipho Hlongwane
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“It’s called summer flu,” my friend said. I’d never heard of it. Summer flu? Sounded serious. Dangerous, even. My lower lip quivered. “It’s like normal flu, only it happens in the summer when it’s hot so it seems much, much worse,” my friend said. Oh. So I wasn’t dying after all. I must remember to put my doctor on speed dial, though. You can’t be too careful with this sort of thing.
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French Vegan Couple On Trial Over Baby’s Death
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two vegans who fed their 11 month old daughter only on her mother’s breast milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday. They have been charged with neglect after their baby died as a result of suffering from vitamin deficiencies and could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
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Tanzanian Shaman Takes Break, 26km Queue Too Long
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Tanzanian “miracle” pastor, Reverend Ambilikile “Babu” Mwasapile has called for a break. He has temporarily asked people to stop going to his remote home for a “miracle cure” after thousands flocked there, resulting in chaos in the surrounding area.
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