Medical Oddities

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Trimethylaminuria: When Your Body Insists On Smelling Like Fish

A genetic lapse in a liver enzyme can make a person permanently fragrant like a fish stall and the remedies are as decorous and awkward as a county council meeting.Read More

When Your Hand Goes Rogue

Proper daft: one of your hands can start doing stuff on its own, like some tiny squaddie with a vendetta.Read More

When Muscles Vote To Become Bone

A rare genetic malady where your soft tissue stages a coup and progressively ossifies, as if your body had enrolled in the worst DIY renovation scheme imaginable.Read More

My Gut Secretly Became a Brewery

Picture getting blackout drunk without a drink because your own gut microbes threw a fermentation party - and yes, that is an actual medical thing.Read More

When A Stroke Gives You A Foreign Accent

You wake up after a head injury and your sister swears you sound like you grew up in Warsaw; welcome to foreign accent syndrome, the brain's most rude impersonation.Read More

When Your Sofa Turns Into a Dollhouse: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Some people wake up and the world has shrunk or stretched like a bad special effect; it is real, it is weird, and it has a proper medical name. Read More
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