Wish I Didn't Know
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A 53-year old British man is the first to have his prostate removed after learning he had the BRCA2 gene.
Doctors were hesitant to remove the 53-year old man’s prostate upon learning that he has the male version of the Angelina Jolie genetic flaw that can lead to breast and prostate cancer, but upon examination of his prostate after the operation they discovered that there was a significant level of cancer in the man’s prostate.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A bizarre accident has left numerous people injured, with at least five critical.
A Metro-North commuter train from New York to Boston derailed and was hit by another train Friday evening while carrying over 700 passengers between the two trains, leaving over 60 people injured and five people critically injured.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A 50-year old woman has to have her hip replacement replaced.
It took two years for Paula Spurlock, a 50-year old Denver woman, to learn that her migraine headaches and head-to-toe itching were being caused by an allergy to her hip replacement.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – An extreme case of Hydrocephalus, a disease also known as water on the brain, caused a baby’s head to swell to three times its normal size.
Roona Begum, an 18-month old girl from the poverty stricken town of Agartala, India, has had free emergency surgery to reduce the water on her brain, which had caused her head to swell to three times its normal size.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - Academy Award winning actress, Angelina Jolie, had a double mastectomy so that her children would not be afraid they would lose her to breast cancer.
At age 37 Angelina Jolie, Award winning actress, humanitarian, mother of six and partner of Brad Pitt, has had a double mastectomy because a faulty gene gave her an 86% chance of developing breast cancer and a 50% chance of ovarian cancer.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – A young woman doesn’t care if society thinks she should be thin.
23-year-old Tammy Jung currently weighs 231 pounds but her goal weight is 420 pounds, and she is consuming over 5,000 calories a day to try and reach her “ideal” weight.
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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A mother gave birth to conjoined twins at home.
Shalu Pawar has astounded the medical profession by giving birth to conjoined twins and naturally delivering the twins at home in Panvel, Raigad District, rather than seeking medical assistance at hospital.
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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A women’s attempt at plastic surgery left her unrecognizable.
Hang Mioku, a plastic surgery addict, injected cooking oil into her face when doctors refused to give her any more silicone.
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(WIDK By Jon Foster) – Imagine a runny nose that never cleared up; one man can.
After almost 2 years of a continually runny nose, Joe Nagy was shocked to find out it wasn’t his nose, but his brain that was leaking.
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(WIDK By Alex Dorian) – After three days of deliberation a jury acquitted a man accused of rape.
Andrew Machin, a 40-year-old man with a rare sleeping disorder from Warsop, United Kingdom, was found innocent after a woman accused him of raping her while she was drunk.
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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A girl’s life was changed forever after a simple procedure.
A New York couple claim doctors ‘stole’ their daughter after the 19-year-old cheerleader went into hospital with stomach pains and came out with permanent brain damage, unable to move or communicate.
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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A mans odd diet is revealed on TLC.
David Gracer, 47, told his story of how he is addicted to eating bugs and has consumed over 5,000 species in the past 11 years.
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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A baby was taken from parents under questionable circumstances.
Anna and Alex Nikolayev had a bad experience at a Sacramento, California hospital so they wanted to take their son Sammy to another area doctor, but police showed up to take away their infant boy before they had the chance.
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