WEIRD STUFF: Tooth grows out of man’s nose

Drinking glass found in man's stomach

Doctors found a whole glass inside the stomach of a man.

The 55-year-old patient was admitted to a hospital in India with constipation and severe abdominal pain. He underwent both an ultrasound and an X-ray where medics located a "serious disturbance" in his intestines.

It turned out that the "disturbance" is a whole drinking glass.

The man claimed that he swallowed the glass while drinking tea, but doctors weren't convinced as the food passage was too narrow for the object to pass through.

Medics attempted to remove the glass from the rectum via an endoscopic procedure, but had no choice but to operate on the man when that failed.

Dr Mahmudal Hasan, head of the team of operating doctors, said: "How the glass got inside the body of the said patient, it is still a mystery."

The patient is now in a stable condition following his misadventure with the glass.

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Tooth grows out of man's nose

A man in New York had a tooth growing in his nose. The unnamed 38-year-old patient arrived at Mount Sinai in Manhattan complaining of breathing difficulties out of his right nasal cavity.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Sagar Khanna and Dr Michael Turner diagnosed the individual with a deviated septum -- when the division between the nasal passages is forced to one side.

In an attempt to fix the malady, the two surgeons opted for a corrective rhinoplasty, where they uncovered the culprit, an ectopic tooth, roughly .6 inches long.

After the procedure was deemed a success, the man reported being able to breathe through both nostrils again.

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Oxygen machine designed for moon travels

Humans may soon be able to live on the moon, thanks to an oxygen-generating machine.

A British company has been working on technology to extract breathable air from lunar rocks and hopes to launch the project in the next two years.

The developments may lay the groundwork for a human base on the moon in the future.

Roger Ward, the chief technical officer at Thales Alenia Space, said: "Once upon a time, putting people on the moon was a huge challenge, but it should become almost routine in the next few years."

Ward continued: "We want to provide oxygen to manned lunar research stations, which are permanent, and people go backwards and forwards from -- rather than for a few days every 20 years."