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The girl who cries tears of blood

DOCTORS have been left mystified after a 20-year-old woman in Chile started crying blood.

Yaritza Oliva developed the condition earlier this month, and now bleeds from her eyes several times a day.

Miss Oliva, who lives in Purranque, Chile, said that the pain is ‘indescribable’, The Sun reported.

When she visited the doctor no infection was found so she was sent home with eye drops.

But, her parents, who cannot afford to send her to an appropriate medical expert, have asked friends and neighbours to help them raise funds for her.

Father, Jose, made an appeal on a local news programme.

The carpenter said: ‘Please put your hands over your hearts, see our situation and help my daughter.’

Some experts have suggested that Miss Oliva has a condition called haemolacria.

The rare condition causes sufferers to cry tears of blood.

Haemolacria can indicate a more serious illness, such as a tumour and can be caused by high levels of hormones in women.

A teenage boy was diagnosed with haemolacria in 2009 after he cried blood three times a day.

Calvino Inman, 15, from Tennessee, said that he had no warning when the tears were about to occur.

He said that sometimes he could not feel them, and others it was like a burning sensation.

He and his mother appeared on television to appeal for help, but they did not find a cure.

Very little is known of the condition.

We are ready to transplant a human head, says neuroscientist

Actors Bela Lugosi as the monster and Boris Karloff as Doctor Frankenstein in scene from the 1930s film. Source: Supplied

GOT your head screwed on right? This may become a pertinent question if this neuroscientist gets his way - he wants to begin transplanting heads.

Doctor Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group has outlined a medical procedure which he says will successfully connect a brain to a spinal chord - the major challenge for any such operation.

"It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage," he writes in the Surgical Neurology International journal.

But how much would such a procedure cost?

Dr Canavero says you would have to put aside some $15 million for the operation alone.

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Dr Canavero says his procedure is derived from successful head transplants of animals from experiments dating back to the 1970s.

The head of a rhesus monkey was transplanted to the body of another in 1970 in an experimental procedure.

The head was quickly cooled to about 12C and quickly transferred to a chilled new body.

Once the head was reconnected to the circulatory system, the body's heart was restarted and work initiated to connect the nervous system.

Dr Canavero argues that a "clean cut" by an ultra-sharp cutting implement was the key to success as it would allow the severed nerve cells to fuse with each other.

Late last month, scientists at Case Western Reserve University proved they could now restore some neural connectivity in the spinal cords of rats.

Perhaps all those people who have had their heads cryogenically frozen weren't out of their minds after all.

My erection wouldn't deflate for 240 days

AN imperfect penile implant left a truck driver with an erection that wouldn't deflate … for eight months.

Daniel Metzgar's delicate predicament has led to a malpractice lawsuit being heard in a Delaware court.

Wherever the 44-year-old New Jersey truck driver went, his condition got in the way, said Metzgar's attorney, Michael C. Heyden. Retrieving the morning newspaper became a problem. So was riding his motorcycle. Family events presented embarrassing situations because, as Heyden put it: "Dan is stuck in this position."

According to the court papers and testimony at New Castle County Superior Court. the initial procedure was done in 2009 by a Wilmington urologist, Dr. Thomas J. Desperito, Delaware Online reported. The surgery involved placing an inflatable penile implant inside the shaft of the penis, a fluid reservoir under the abdominal wall and a pump inside the scrotum.

Metzgar said he had hoped the prosthesis would help his love life with his wife, Donna, where other solutions had failed. Unfortunately, it did just the opposite, making him feel like less of a man.

"I could hardly dance, with an erection poking my partner," Metzgar told jurors Monday when he took the witness stand. The procedure caused him to shink from much of life, and he took up wearing long baggy sweatpants and a long shirt to hide his situation.

After the surgery, he claimed his scrotum grew to the size of a volleyball. Attorneys for the urologist claim that Metzgar, at that point — four months after the surgery — should have realized something was wrong.

Desperito's attorney, Colleen D. Shields, insisted that the urologist told Metzgar the prosthesis had to be removed four months after the surgery when the patient complained of an infection and that the erection wasn't going down. Metzgar, according to Shields, didn't do anything for months following the visit in late April 2010.

The prosthesis was eventually removed by another doctor in August 2010 and replaced, but Metzgar said that the scar tissue from the first surgery left him about 50 percent smaller and that he does not experience the same level of sensation.

Metzgar and his wife are seeking unspecified damages from Desperito and his medical group.

Hairy stockings to keep perverts away trending online

The image purporting to show hairy stockings.

LADIES, a new trend has arrived that promises to keep you warm in the winter months and safe from perverts when you're out and about.

An image going viral on Sina Weibo - the Chinese equivalent of Twitter - purports to promote 'hairy stockings'.

The picture shows a pair of legs hairy from thigh to ankle but non-hairy feet - leaving the gender of the subject open to debate.

''Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for young girls going out,'' the post reads, according to trend watcher ChinaSMACK.

The leg trend has attracted a mixed public response.

''Essential for the subway?'' asks one person.

Another is not convinced the trend will take off: ''If it has come to this, why not just wear pants?''

Lord of the Husk: Meet Tamale Jesus

I've seen Jesus on a lot of strange items - but this one's a first: A Californian says Jesus has appeared to him on a tamale.

"Holy tamales! On June 4, 2013, we were heating tamales for dinner when we saw an apparition of Jesus Christ staring back from one of the husks!" an eBay seller named mattrick subtext writes.

"After examining the husk, we also noticed the outline of a body and hand beneath His face... goose bumps!"

The tamale husk has been dried out and locked in a Ziploc. In another miracle, it hasn't decayed after nearly three weeks.

As of this writing, Tamale Jesus has an opening bid of 10 bucks - and no takers.