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A Rare Breast Cancer Can Read as Probably Benign on a Mammogram, and Mastectomy Is Not the Treatment It Needs

Primary breast lymphoma is treated with chemotherapy, not surgery, and published cases show imaging repeatedly pointing clinicians the wrong way.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

Human Brain Tissue Is Grown in Labs Worldwide and Almost No Law Anywhere Says What Is Off Limits

Neural organoids fall outside the scope of specialized ethics review almost everywhere. Scientists are now split over whether that exemption still holds up.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

A Wire Left in His Chest During Bypass Surgery in 2002 Turned Up Inside His Left Ventricle

A pacing wire left after bypass surgery crossed into the left side of an 81-year-old man's heart and was found by chance decades later.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

A Hospital IV Fluid Is Recalled After Cotton Fibers, Wood Fiber and Plastic Were Found in Solution

B. Braun recalled a lot of Excel Lactated Ringers IV solution after finding cotton fibers, wood fiber, and polystyrene plastic inside it.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Publix Frozen Berry Recall Now Carries the FDA's Most Serious Risk Classification After 12 E. coli Cases

FDA classified the GreenWise frozen berry recall sold at Publix as Class I, meaning exposure could reasonably cause serious illness or death.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

A 2010 Case Where Atrial Fibrillation Stopped During a Rectal Exam Went Viral Again, and a Cardiologist Is Pushing Back

A 2010 case of atrial fibrillation resolving during a rectal exam resurfaced online, and a cardiologist is questioning part of the account.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

A Cutter Blade Entered His Chest at Work and Turned Up Three Months Later Inside His Abdominal Aorta

A 40-year-old man's lower abdominal pain led surgeons to a cutter knife blade lodged in his aorta, three months after an untreated injury.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Her Kidney Infections Were Blamed on Fibroids and a Hysterectomy Followed, but a Swallowed Toothpick Was the Cause

A woman had a hysterectomy for infections blamed on fibroids. The real cause was a swallowed toothpick that had bored into her kidney.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Two Sisters Had Emergency Kidney Stone Surgery 24 Hours Apart After Years of Being Told They Were Too Young

Claire and Lilyana Ziemba had emergency kidney stone surgeries a day apart, after years of hearing that young women do not get stones.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Why Constipation Follows Astronauts into Orbit: Blood from 52 Crew Members Points to Their Gut Bacteria

Blood from 52 astronauts shows gut microbes ferment protein instead of fiber in orbit, a biochemical clue to why digestion slows in space.

Medical Daily · Aug 20