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Dying Florida Man Not Owed Kidney - MSNBC
If you’re promised an organ for a transplant in New York, that doesn’t mean you own it. Citing 17th-century British common law on grave robbing, the state’s highest court unanimously ruled Thursday that a Florida man did not own a kidney promised to him by the widow of a lifelong friend.
Senator Reid (D-Nev.) Recovering After Emergency Brain Surgery - ABC
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the condition of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., “looked very good” after surgery late last night for bleeding in his brain caused by a congenital condition. The brain-bleeding episode, which came about with little warning, has left many wondering whether they too could be at risk.
Drug Resistant TB ‘More Severe’ - BBC
A survey of 79 countries by the World Health Organization published in the Lancet found TB drug resistance in virtually every one. Particularly high levels of resistance were seen in regions of the former Soviet Union and parts of China.
Police Find 43 Pound Woman - Yahoo! News
A 22-year-old developmentally disabled woman weighing only 43 pounds was found in a bedroom at her mother’s home, and the mother was charged with abusing her, authorities said. The woman was wearing only a T-shirt and four soiled diapers on a mattress stained with urine and feces, The Flint Journal reported Saturday. She was taken to Hurley Medical Center on Wednesday, where she was stable. “It’s just appalling,” prosecutor David Leyton said.
Study Finds Gender Differences Related to Eating and Body Image - Science Daily
In the new study of observed eating behavior in a social setting, young men and women who perceived their bodies as being less than “ideal” ate differing amounts of food after they were shown images of “ideal-bodied” people of their own gender. Lead researcher Kristen Harrison found that “in the presence of same-gender peers, certain women eat less and certain men eat more following exposure to ideal-body images — ‘certain’ in this case referring to women and men who have discrepancies between their actual body and the kind of body they think their peers idealize,” Harrison said.
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