To the moon and back

A woman whose heart stopped for six hours has made a remarkable recovery thanks to a fortunate set of circumstances and the valiant work of her doctors. Announcing the story this week, her doctors from Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona, Spain believe the case is among the longest-ever recorded cardiac arrests. Audrey Schoeman, a 34-year-old British-born teacher who lives in Barcelona, developed severe hypothermia while hiking during a snowstorm around the Pyrenees mountains of northern Spain. After she went into cardiac arrest, it was actually the hypothermia that would save her life. After setting off for a hike on the morning of November 3, the weather started to worsen. Schoeman cannot remember anything after that morning, although her husband Rohan notes she started …

A new medical case report tells the story of how a teenager “degloved” his penis and ripped open his scrotum after suffering a freak accident on his bicycle. As reported in BMJ Case Reports, the 14-year-old boy was cycling one-handed at walking pace along pavement while holding a drink when he collided with a parked car. Somehow, the handlebars ended up impaling his groin. He was rushed to A&E at John Radcliffe Hospital in the British city of Oxford, where doctors found a large gash extending across his groin, the pubic bone, and down into the perineum, a part of the body between the anus and the genitals. The injury also ripped and inverted his scrotum, and “partially degloved” the penis. For …

A new medical case report tells the story of how a teenager “degloved” his penis and ripped open his scrotum after suffering a freak accident on his bicycle. As reported in BMJ Case Reports, the 14-year-old boy was cycling one-handed at walking pace along pavement while holding a drink when he collided with a parked car. Somehow, the handlebars ended up impaling his groin. He was rushed to A&E at John Radcliffe Hospital in the British city of Oxford, where doctors found a large gash extending across his groin, the pubic bone, and down into the perineum, a part of the body between the anus and the genitals. The injury also ripped and inverted his scrotum, and “partially degloved” the penis. For …

The Government of Samoa will be shutting its doors on Thursday and Friday to combat a measles outbreak that has already resulted in the deaths of at least 60 individuals, 52 of whom were children. At least 4,052 measles cases have been reported since the outbreak, 171 of which were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to an update released by officials Monday afternoon. Local schools were also closed due to the outbreak and will likely remain so throughout the holiday season until the start of 2020.  IFLScience spoke with Cate Heinrich, a UNICEF representative now stationed in Samoa, who said that an earlier outbreak occurred in New Zealand and has spread to other Pacific Island nations due to regular …