Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:44PM
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By Diane Mapes
Misheard song lyrics, sometimes referred to as mondegreens are incredibly common, often hilarious, and always a crowd pleaser, judging by the number of stories, Web sites and water cooler chatter devoted to the topic.
But while we can all point to common misinterpreted lyrics (think “wrapped up like a douche” from Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light”), most of us don’t really know exactly why it happens.
A new study by Dr. Wei Ji Ma, assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Tex., may finally reveal why so many of us think Freddie Mercury is singing “Beelzebub has a devil for a son named Steve” in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:34PM
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By Kavita Varma-White
We all know about embarrassing pregnancy ailments. The gas attacks. Memory lapses. Hemorrhoids. Don’t even get me started on the backaches. But have you heard about the horrific rashes?
Luckily, my first pregnancy was pretty perfect. I didn’t have any problems – no morning sickness or gestational diabetes or excessive weight gain – and I delivered a beautiful, healthy, 7-pound baby girl.
But all hell broke loose a few days after I came home from the hospital and was settling into the normal-but-exhausting routine of breast-feeding and not sleeping.
Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:59AM
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By Diane Mapes
While a 92-year-old woman delivering a 60-year-old baby sounds like a bizarre plot twist from “Benjamin Button,” it’s true. Huang Yijun, 92, of southern China, recently delivered a child which she’d been carrying for well over half a century.
The baby wasn’t actually alive, however. The woman was carrying a lithopedion—or stone baby — a rare phenomenon where a pregnancy fails, the fetus calcifies while still in the mother’s body.
According to Dr. Natalie Burger, endocrinologist and fertility specialist at Texas Fertility Center, lithopedions start off as ectopic pregnancies—a condition where the fertilized egg gets stuck on its way to the womb, implants and develops outside the uterus.
“Usually an ectopic pregnancy will mean a [fallopian] tubal pregnancy, but in a small percentage of cases, the pregnancy can actually occur in the abdominal cavity — in places like the bowel, the ovary, or even on the aorta,” she says. “These are very rare locations and they can be very dangerous.”