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It all started next to a field of grazing sheep in Greece, where an unidentified 58-year-old was working outdoors in the dry September heat. She “noticed numerous flies swarming around her face,” according to a new medical report, and about a week later, she began experiencing pain in her sinuses. The next few weeks brought “severe coughing,” but no other symptoms. Until one day, Oct. 15 to be exact, she sneezed out a “worm.” Soon after, an ear, nose and throat doctor got to work surgically removing 10 larvae and a pupa — a teenage insect between the larval and...

Vice President-elect JD Vance underwent a “long-planned” minor surgery Friday after appearing at the Capitol earlier in the day for the Senate’s swearing-in ceremony. “The Vice President-elect is having long-planned, minor sinus surgery and will be back at work tomorrow,” his spokesperson William Martin told Fox News. The surgery reportedly took place at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC. The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. The medical procedure comes with less than three weeks to go before Vance is sworn-in as vice president on Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald Trump is...

A jump into a swimming pool in 2003 changed Travis Robinson's life forever. Somewhere between a belly flop and a tuck, Robinson, then 17, hit the pool in such a way that he injured his spinal cord. He now is paralyzed from the neck down. But in January, he hopes another moment will change his life: surgery. Robinson will fly to Portugal to get a breakthrough surgery at the Hospital Egas Moniz. In the procedure, the scar tissue that surrounds his spinal cord will be removed. Doctors will take tissue that contains stem cells from his sinuses and implant it...

My sinuses a casualty of the drug war   Tom Martin OPINION Sunday, September 11, 2005 My breathing is becoming a problem for my wife. Yes, the inhalation of air for the benefit of my lungs has become an annoyance, especially at night when she's trying to sleep. The problem is with the decibel level of my breathing, which is loud because my nasal passages are generally blocked. I'm an allergy guy. Breathing through my nose is not something I take for granted. It takes effort to keep the duct work clear. For decades that effort, along with seeing...