A man in Petropolis, Brazil, accidentally shot himself through the head with a harpoon. As he was cleaning his fishing gear, Bruno Barcellos de Souza Coutinho was impaled by a spear that went 15 centimeters into his skul...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/22/Man-Survives-Harpoon-in-Head/
The University of Louisville beat Duke Sunday to a... ...a compound fracture of his tibia and fibula. The injury was shown on live TV, and it was frightening. The... ...t it was worse than Joe Theismann's 1985 football injury of the same kind. Louisville coach Rick Pitino sh... ...ate has sprung up about the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/01/Dont-Look-at-Kevin-Wares-Leg/
Ashlyn Blocker is 13 years old and has never felt pain -physical pain that is. She has “congenital insensitivity to pain,” meaning that although she can feel pressure and temperature up to a point, but not pa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/18/The-Hazards-of-Growing-Up-Painlessly/
New York Times photojournalist Joao Silva was embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan when a land mine blew his legs off last year. Earlier this month, he made his first trip back to New York and gave a speech at...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/31/this-is-what-i-do-this-is-all-that-i-know/
Unemployed and uninsured, 41-year-old Kathy Myers couldn't afford to get her injured shoulder treated, so she came up with a radical plan: she shot herself to get free medical care!Kathy Myers' troubles started when her...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/23/uninsured-woman-shot-self-to-get-medical-care/
Sisso the swift was found with a damaged wing seven months ago. The little bird has healed, but must learn to fly all over again with some inventive physical therapy. Sisso takes flying lessons suspended from a custom-ma...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/swift-learning-to-fly-again/
Fido may be cute - but according to epidemiologist... ...enters for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) injury center, it is also a walking and barking hazard t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/03/government-dogs-and-cats-are-health-hazards/
