"The foot literally popped out of the brain"

 OK, so I'm guessing it probably won't be a question on the term final, and hopefully not on Step 1 either, but it's pretty "cool" (depending on your definition of "cool") regardless.  Fetus in fetu is a teratoma in which a congenital twin begins to grow inside of the other.  It's very rare, but wouldn't you know it, it just happened in Colorado.  I've included a link to the article, as well as a link to a picture of the "foot in the brain."  I decided to make the picture a popup instead of plastering it on the front page to prevent those who are inclined to losing their lunch all over their laptop at "graphic" images from doing so.

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Original Article

Colorado Doctor Finds Foot In Newborn's Brain

Infant Recovering After Surgery

In 2008, after recovering from breast cancer, New York artist Vicki Behm contracted what seemed to be a bad flu. But symptoms persisted beyond the usual time. She eventually found herself in an ER, gasping for breath. Then she was diagnosed with a disease she had barely heard of.

This is Vicki's visual diary, annotated with her words, from her symptoms to her hopeful new life with a weakened heart.

Artist's Notebook: My Adventures with Heart Failure

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 Five new and unconventional antibiotic therapies for the future.

The threat of antibiotic resistance is nothing to scoff at: The World Health Organization predicts (pdf) that some diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, could have “no effective therapies within the next 10 years.” Indeed, 70 percent of hospital-acquired bacterial infections in the United States—which kill 90,000 Americans a year—are resistant to at least one drug, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But scientists are working hard to find more potent antibiotics, and they are uncovering them in the strangest of places, from alligators’ veins to cholesterol drugs.

 The list includes -

• Gator Blood
• Frog Skin
• Synthetic Molecules
• Focused Phages
• Cholesterol Drugs