Mourning gets transplant
Alonzo Mourning and his donor were reported in stable condition Friday night at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City after kidney transplant surgery. Dr. Marc Bessler performed the surgery...
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Officials urge taking precautions against return of West Nile virus
While SARS dominated public attention during the past weeks, the discovery in March of a dead blue jay and two dead sparrows in Louisiana signaled the reawakening of another looming...
OxyContin prescription leads to murder charge
A doctor accused of improperly prescribing the powerful painkiller OxyContin has been charged with first-degree murder, apparently the first time in the nation a physician has faced such charges in...
UNCERTAIN STERILIZATION
Chemicals used by hospitals, doctors, dentists and kidney dialysis centers to disinfect reusable medical devices might be putting patients at risk of serious infection and even death. Some of the...
THE IMPLANT ALTERNATIVE
''Go ahead, touch them. It`s OK. She doesn`t mind,'' says brassiere engineer Buddy Greenberg. ''Don`t they feel natural?'' One of his employees at the Jodee Inc. bra company in Hollywood,...