On an otherwise ordinary day in Dundee, Scotland, a man in his 30s stifled a sneeze while driving—and tore a hole in his ...

The symptoms: The patient arrived at the emergency department in severe pain and with a swollen neck that he struggled to ...

Here’s a scary lesson about why you shouldn’t hold in your sneezes. In a case report this month, doctors in the UK describe a man in his 30s who tore open his windpipe by holding his nose and ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

In early June 2024, several news sites reported on a rather unexpected medical emergency: A Florida man's colon fell out after a round of sneezing and coughing. According to the reports ...

You’d probably never imagine that something as commonplace and harmless as a sneeze would cause this kind of ghastly injury – but that’s exactly what happened to a Florida man earlier this ...

A 63-year-old man from Florida went through a horrifying ordeal after his colon protruded from his abdomen following a forceful sneeze and cough. The incident occurred while the man was having ...

The patient arrived at the emergency department in severe pain and with a swollen neck that he struggled to move. He reported ...