Dispensary Corner 27 Sep 13
September 27, 2013
Always make sure you wash
food before you eat it...
Authorities in Sweden have
charged a man with vandalism
after he was caught urinating on
fruit displayed in a Gothenburg
supermarket.
Police were called in after
stunned shoppers reported that
the man had emptied his bladder
over a tray of apples and oranges,
according to the UK Daily Mail.
Officers said the man was
aggressive when they arrived,
with the offender understood to
have been under the influence of
alcohol.
Chinese surgeons have achieved a breakthrough after managing to grow a spare nose on the forehead of a patient.
The new nose was created so that it could be transplanted in place of his original one, which had been damaged in an accident. 22-year-old Mr Xiaolian, from Fuzhou in Fujian province, contracted an infection in the cartilage, making it impossible for surgeons to repair the nose. According to a BBC report, the replacement was grown by placing a “skin tissue expander” into his forehead, cutting it into the shape of a nose and implanting cartilage taken from the man’s ribs (below). Apparently the new nose is “in good shape,” with transplant surgery to be undertaken soon. The procedure, called flap prefabrication, was also successfully undertaken in the UK last year when a man who had lost his nose to cancer had a new one grown on his arm.
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