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Dental Drill Piece Falls Down Woman's Throat, Lands in Her Lungs

By Amber Moore | Dec 31, 2012 03:47 PM EST

A dental implant surgery in a hospital in Sweden went awry after a piece of dental drill fell down a woman's throat and landed in her lung.

"Misidentified Man" Detained and Injected With Powerful Antipsychotics After Staff Mistake Him for an Escaped Mental Patient

By Christine Hsu | Dec 31, 2012 02:57 PM EST

A healthy man, mistaken as a runaway mental patient, ended up being forcefully detained at a psychiatric hospital and was injected with anti-psychotic drugs that made him so sick he had to be hospitalized.

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Tipping Television Kills Children: CPSC Report

By Amber Moore | Dec 14, 2012 06:00 PM EST

Televisions falling over injure 43,000 people in the U.S., about 59 percent of which are children, says a new report from CPSC.

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11-Year-Old Girl Dies in Hospital After Impaling Herself With Curtain Rod

By Christine Hsu | Nov 20, 2012 12:47 PM EST

An 11-year-old girl from Utah died Monday evening after she impaled herself with a curtain rod in a gruesome freak accident.

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Giant Rat Savages Toddler Sleeping in Crib

By Christine Hsu | Nov 16, 2012 04:55 PM EST

A giant rat attacked a baby girl as she lay sleeping in her crib.

Lewis Godfrey

Man Returns From the Dead After Accident Requires Medics to Hold Body Together With Blanket

By Makini Brice | Nov 13, 2012 05:37 PM EST

A 23-year-old man has made a miraculous recovery just five months after having his body dragged by a 15-ton truck.

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Bumble Bee Tuna Plant Worker Cooked to Death in Oven

By Christine Hsu | Oct 15, 2012 06:40 PM EDT

Police say that a 62-year-old employee was cooked to death in an industrial accident at a Southern California Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant.

Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette

Doctor Beheads Baby in Grisly Botched Birth and Tries to Cover it Up With C-Section, Lawsuit

By Christine Hsu | Oct 12, 2012 12:28 PM EDT

A Missouri obstetrician is accused of severing a baby's head from his body during delivery and then trying to hide it by shoving the newborn back into the mother's birth canal, according to a lawsuit.

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Girl Loses Part of Her Thumb to Pool Vent at Famous Texas Water Park, Lawsuit

By Christine Hsu | Oct 09, 2012 03:35 PM EDT

An 11-year-old girl lost part of her thumb when her hand got stuck in a wall vent of one of America's largest indoor water amusement parks.

Taron Pounds

Docs Rebuild Man's Face With Parts of His Leg After Disfiguring Fireworks Injury

By Christine Hsu | Sep 26, 2012 06:17 PM EDT

Doctors have reconstructed a man's face with part of his leg bone after half the man's face was literally "blown off" by fireworks.

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