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Feeling blue: US woman treated by doctors after blood turned navy
A 25-year-old woman turned up at a Rhode Island hospital with blood that had turned navy blue. According to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, the woman had used a topical pain reliever for a toothache. She was diagnosed with “acquired methemoglobinemia”.
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