The British man, identified only as Graham, woke up nine years ago utterly convinced that he was no longer alive even though he was still breathing.
Doctors diagnosed him with Cotard’s Syndrome, which is also known as ‘Walking Corpse Syndrome’ because it makes people think they have turned into zombies.
Graham did not believe them, however, and insisted that his brain was dead.
The unusual condition emerged after Graham, who suffered from severe depression, tried to commit suicide by taking an electrical appliance with him into the bath.
Eight months …

(Reuters) – Angelina Jolie’s aunt died of breast cancer on Sunday, a hospital spokesman in California said, nearly two weeks after the actress wrote about electing to have a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer.
Debbie Martin, the younger sister of Jolie’s mother, died at age 61 at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, near San Diego.
Her husband, Ron Martin, told Britain’s Sky News that his wife had the same defective BRCA1 gene as Jolie.
Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of breast cancer in 2007 at …

A Chinese farmer who lost both his hands in a freak accident has built his own pair of prosthetic arms from scratch.
Sun Jifa was forced to build his own proshetic limbs after he lost both his arms in a freak accident in northern China.
Faced with the prospect of a lifetime without work and unable to afford the limbs offered by local hospitals, the farmer was forced to rely on his own ingenuity.
He spent eight years crafting the limbs out of steel.
“By using these arms I can …

SYDNEY, May 27 (Xinhua) — One in three Australians is at increased of kidney disease, an often undetected silent killer, according to Kidney Health Australia (KHA).
Australians are being reminded of the dangers of kidney disease during Kidney Health Week, launched Monday and held until Sunday 1 June.
Federal Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing Peter Dutton attended the opening at Parliament House in Canberra Monday morning.
Currently in Australia nearly 11,000 people are on dialysis, over 1,000 are waiting for a kidney transplant and over 54 …

Ricky Naputi, the 900-pound Guam man at the center of a new TLC documentary, was never able to lose the necessary weight that would have allowed him to have a surgery that could have saved his life. He ultimately died from morbid obesity.
TLC’s cameras followed Naputi, 39, for three years as he struggled to find a surgeon who would be willing to perform a potentially life-saving weight-loss surgery. The documentary, “900 Pound Man, Race Against Time,” debuted Wednesday night.
The show chronicles the lives of Naputi and his wife …

When a pregnant teacher in Texas collapsed, her coworkers rushed to help. The woman technically died, gave birth and then was brought back to life.
Erica Nigrelli, an English teacher at Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, collapsed in a co-worker’s classroom when she was 36 weeks pregnant.
“Apparently I told her, ‘I feel very faint,’ and I put my head down and I essentially just passed out,” Erica Nigrelli said.
Erica’s husband, Nathan, is also a teacher at Elkins.
“I opened the door and walked in and Erica was laying on the …

NEW ALBANY, Ohio – Investigators say a former doctor going on trial this fall in Ohio raped a woman who was nine months pregnant, then killed her by injecting her with heroin.
An indictment against Ali Salim, once an emergency room physician, also alleges he abused the corpse of 23-year-old Deanna Ballman last summer and tampered with evidence during the investigation against him. He is also charged with killing Ballman’s unborn child.
But questions remain about the circumstances under which Salim and Ballman met.
Ballman had recently moved from Colorado back to …

Turkey has banned alcohol advertising and increased restrictions on alcohol sales today in a move likely to anger secularists who accuse the government of having an Islamic agenda.
It follows the move earlier this month forbidding female flight attendants at Turkey’s national airline from wearing red lipstick and nail polish.
The sale of alcohol – which Islam forbids followers from consuming – will be outlawed from 10pm to 6am. Alcohol producers will have to place health warnings on packaging.
The law, which needs presidential approval before coming into effect, also bans alcohol-producing companies …

People who suffer frequent bouts of heartburn have a 78 per cent higher risk of throat cancer, new research suggests.
However, the study also revealed that taking antacids has a protective effect – people who suffer from heartburn but take antacids have a 41 per cent lower risk of throat cancer than those who do not take the medication.
Experts, who published their findings in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, studied 631 patients, 468 of whom had throat cancer and 163 cancers of the vocal cord.
All participants completed a questionnaire …

PLASTIC surgeons in China have offered to help a girl whose hair is growth is out of control.
Four-year-old Jing Jing, from Hunan Province, China, suffers from a rare genetic condition that means she has excess hair all over her body.
They say it could take up to two years for Jing Jing to complete treatment.
The story comes after we reported on the Russell family earlier this year, who have a combined hair length of 13 feet.