Pa. teen charged with branding friend with fork, key ring, cross, cookie cutter, and crucifixSeptember 30th, 2009 Pa. teen uses fork, cookie cutter to brand friendNEW SALEM, Pa. — State police have charged a southwestern Pennsylvania teen with branding a friend using heated metal objects because the boys thought it was "cool." Trooper James Pierce, of the Uniontown Barracks, says Tuesday he filed one count of illegal tattooing and body piercing against a 15-year-old New Salem boy with Fayette County juvenile probation officials.
Brit surgeons set new transplants record with 5 ops in a dayAugust 15th, 2009 LONDON - British surgeons have set a new transplant record by carrying out five operations in less than 24 hours. Surgeons Darius Mirza, Khalid Sharif, Paolo Muiesan and Simon Bramell along with a team of consultants hit a European first with the stomach, pancreas, bowel and liver transplants.
Meet the Brit girl who can run and swim after 'heart transplant was reversed'July 14th, 2009 LONDON - In a world's first recovery of its kind, a Brit girl who had her heart transplant operation reversed after her own heart was deemed fit is now healthy enough to play, swim, and run. Hannah Clark, 16, from Mountain Ash, in South Wales, underwent the innovative surgery as a two year-old, "piggybacking" a new organ onto her own, failing, heart.
Meet, the 11-month-old tot who's kept alive by ViagraJuly 1st, 2009 LONDON - Despite being given just a few weeks to live by doctors, a little boy with a serious heart condition has managed to survive, courtesy anti-impotence drug Viagra. Little Alfie Oliver, who needs six doses of the drug every day, is set to celebrate his first birthday in two weeks.
French hospital says man who received double hand and partial face transplant diesJune 15th, 2009 French hospital says multi-transplant patient diesPARIS — A burn victim who received a simultaneous partial face and double hand transplant in a French hospital has died. The Paris Hospital authorities says the man, whose name has not been made public, died as a result of a heart attack during subsequent surgery that followed the transplant operation April 4.
'Papi' or Daddy was starlets and showgirls' codename for Silvio BerlusconiJune 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Controversies involving Silvio Berlusconi refuse to die out, with the latest revelation being that celebrities and showgirls who were regular guests at the Italian Prime Minister's Sardinian villa called him Papi, or Daddy, as a codename in case their telephones were being tapped, it has emerged. The revelation was based on the first accounts from guests at the infamous New Year party.
Two British troops killed in AfghanistanMay 31st, 2009 LONDON - Two British soldiers died in an explosion during a military operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, the British defence ministry announced here late Saturday.
British forces have suffered 165 troops since entering the battle against the Taliban militant movement in October 2001.
When Blair begged wife to save him from getting snapped with Berlusconi!May 25th, 2009 LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair begged his wife Cherie to ensure he was not photographed next to Silvio Berlusconi when the Italian Prime Minister met them during a summer holiday wearing a bandanna. The episode happened during the British couple's visit to Berlusconi's villa on the Italian island of Sardinia in 2004, when the Italian politician had been recuperating from a hair transplant.
Natalie Cole fears she will run out of time before kidney transplantApril 28th, 2009 LONDON - Natalie Cole is terrified that she may not have enough time on her hands to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. The 59-year-old singer has been suffering from kidney failure caused by the chronic liver disease Hepatitis C.
Wis. teen allegedly steals from cars to get money to pay lawyer to defend him on other chargesApril 27th, 2009 Wis. teen allegedly steals from cars to pay lawyer
BELOIT, Wis. — A teen allegedly broke into cars to raise money to pay a lawyer to defend him on other charges.
Frenchman has first-ever transplant of face, handsApril 7th, 2009 PARIS - A team of French surgeons has performed the first-ever successful simultaneous transplant of a person's face and hands, French media reported Tuesday. The recipient, a 30-year-old man, was severely burned in an accident in 2004.
16yr-old English girl has had 17 heart opsMarch 28th, 2009 LONDON - A 16-year-old English girl has had 17 heart operations to save her life. Sarah Haselgrove of Hythe, Kent, was not expected to survive seven days after she was born five weeks prematurely, and had been operated five times before she was one.
What is beating-heart bypass surgery?January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The beating-heart bypass surgery that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent here Saturday is considered the safest for elderly patients who have had a bypass surgery earlier and also have other ailments, say cardiologists. In an open-chest, beating-heart bypass procedure, surgeons make an incision through the breastbone to access the heart, which is not stopped during the surgery.
A sporting event with a differenceDecember 25th, 2008 MUMBAI - It was an event which showed that an organ transplant is no handicap for taking part in sports. About 150 people, recipients of kidney and other organs and their donors from across the country, participated in an athletics meet at the 'Transplant Games' Thursday.
Michael Jackson needs lung transplantDecember 22nd, 2008 LOS ANGELES - Former pop idol Michael Jackson is fighting for his life and will die if he does not receive a lung transplant, his biographer has told US gossip magazine In Touch. Author Ian Halperin said that Jackson, 50, is suffering from the rare genetic illness, Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, as well as emphysema and gastrointestinal bleeding.
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