Emily Joshu

Nov 5, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Emily Joshu

A Norwegian man dismissed as fat for over a decade had a 60-pound tumor in his stomach. Thomas Kraut, 59, spent 12 years struggling with his weight and as his stomach grew larger, doctors assumed he was just obese and enrolled him in weight loss and nutrition courses. Dr Kraut, an optician who is from Germany but moved to Norway in 2008, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012, leading him to eventually be prescribed the diabetes-turned-weight-loss-drug Ozempic.

Nov 5, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Emily Joshu

A teenager can stick her hand in boiling water and step on nails without feeling pain due to rare genetic disorder only a few hundred people have. The now-18-year-old was just a toddler when she ripped off two of her fingernails with her teeth, forcing her parents to wrap her hands in cloth. In elementary school, she tore out five of her baby teeth because she wanted to be visited by the Tooth Fairy. Instead of money, she got a gum infection and needed antibiotics.

Nov 1, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Emily Joshu

Experts have warned against a disease lurking in backyards across America after a series of deaths in Australia. Melioidosis is a serious bacterial lung infection that kills up to half of people it infects worldwide. The illness, which affects about a dozen Americans per year, is caused by the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei, which lives in tropical soils and water.

Nov 1, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Emily Joshu

Health officials warned against even more ground cinnamon due to dangerous levels of toxic metals. The FDA said Friday that it added Super Brand ground cinnamon to its list of products that contain elevated levels of lead. The spice, which was sold at an Asian market in Little Rock, Arkansas, was tested by state health authorities for toxic metals.

Nov 1, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Emily Joshu

A food poisoning outbreak that sickened nearly 50 people was caused by a bacteria in a homemade noodle dish, officials revealed. On October 21, 46 workers at NAFCO Wholesale Fish Distribution Facility in Maryland were sickened about three hours after eating lunch. When first responders arrived, they found workers sitting at picnic tables outside the plant, some slumped over with their heads down.