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A puncture to the heart may be shockingly insidious. Doctors in China have shared an extremely rare case in which they found a 36-millimeter-long sewing needle stuck into the left ventricle of a person's heart. The patient was a 35-year-old man with an intellectual disability who was experiencing painful urination and blood in the urine. When he came to the hospital seeking treatment, however, his vital signs were in a healthy range. Somehow, his cardiovascular system was still functioning. When doctors imaged his chest, they noticed a peculiar shadow over his heart. Chest X-ray demonstrating a linear metallic high-density shadow projected over the precordial region (red arrow). (Ren et al., BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2026)A further CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis revealed several metallic foreign bodies within the patient's body. They were in his abdominal wall, pelvis, bladder wall and lumen, hip bone, hip muscle, and penis. One particularly threatening needle, measuring 36 mm (1.4 inches), had punctured the fluid-filled sac around the patient's heart. Its sharp tip extended quite far into the left ventricular cavity.

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“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Worvan … you shall be avenged.”If you have seen Galaxy Quest, those words may bring you close to tears. They mark the moment when Alan Rickman’s character – a Shakespearean luvvie turned sci-fi sidekick – realises that the ludicrous catchphrase he has reluctantly uttered thousands of times does matter after all.1999’s Galaxy Quest is such a good sci-fi parody that it was once voted the seventh best Star Trek film of all time … by Star Trek fans. Its genre send-up is effective and affectionate, with gags about underwritten female characters and illogical spaceship design. It is also a genuinely fun space caper: there’s a properly scary baddie, a spaceship chase sequence, a high-jeopardy mission on a foreign planet and not one but two romantic subplots. There are Beryllium spheres and a rock monster and an Omega-13 (whatever that is). Rickman’s character, Alexander Dane, is one of a group of washed-up actors from a cancelled cult 1980s sci-fi show, now reduced to appearing at fan conventions.