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Brazilian Plastic Surgeon Says He Operated on Gadhafi

Mar 25, 2011 - 5:39 AM |AP

SAO PAULO -- It was well past midnight when the Brazilian surgeon says he was escorted deep inside a bunker in the Libyan capital. His assignment: to shave years off Moammar Gadhafi's appearance by...

Cyclops Baby Born in India Only Survives 1 Day

Mar 24, 2011 - 7:46 AM |AOL News

mid-day.com

A baby boy with one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week. He survived only one day. Doctors were shocked when they delivered the infant by cesarean section from...

Study: Sex Increases Heart Attack Risk for Lazy People

Mar 24, 2011 - 7:40 AM |AOL News

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If you sit on your butt most of the time, this news may make you break out in a sweat: Sporadic bursts of sex or exercise can increase the risk of a heart attack. Dr. Issa Dahabreh and Dr. Jessica...

First Lady to Write Book About White House Garden

Mar 22, 2011 - 2:51 PM |AOL News

MCT

Michelle Obama is working on a book that's bound to be as dirty as it is wholesome. The first lady has received a book deal from Crown, a unit of Random House, to write about the kitchen garden she...

South Dakota Governor Signs Controversial Abortion Bill

Mar 22, 2011 - 1:13 PM |AP

Doug Dreyer, AP

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the...

Boston Hospital Performs Nation's First Full Face Transplant

Mar 21, 2011 - 2:24 PM |AP

Elise Amendola / AP

BOSTON -- A Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the nation's first full face transplant at a Boston hospital. More than 30 doctors, nurses...

WHO Warns of 'More Serious' Food Safety Problem in Japan

Mar 21, 2011 - 9:56 AM |AOL News

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With elevated amounts of radiation detected in some produce and milk in Japan, the World Health Organization said today that the food safety situation there "quite clearly" is more serious than it...

Philadelphia Breast Surgeon Moonlights as Knife Thrower

Mar 21, 2011 - 7:51 AM |AOL News

Philadelphia Enquirer / Marketwire

Meet Dr. Ted Eisenberg, holder of the world record for the most breast surgeries performed in a lifetime. Rest assured, ladies -- you're probably in safe hands. Not content with handling scalpels...

Source: Minuscule Fallout From Japan Reaches California

Mar 18, 2011 - 10:35 AM |AP

VIENNA -- Radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant has reached Southern California, but the first readings are far below levels that could pose a health hazard, a diplomat said...

Swedish Woman Finds Condom in Milk Container

Mar 18, 2011 - 7:16 AM |AOL News

Arla Foods

A Swedish woman is soured on a popular sour milk drink after discovering a packaged condom inside the container. According to The Local, the woman, who lives in the town of Gunnilse, reportedly...

Overdose Leaves Minn. Teen Dead, 10 Hospitalized

Mar 17, 2011 - 7:37 PM |AP

BLAINE, Minn. -- One teen died and 10 teenagers and young adults were hospitalized Thursday after an apparent mass overdose on a designer hallucinogen at a suburban Minneapolis home, authorities...

US Customs Scanning Incoming Japanese Flights for Radiation

Mar 17, 2011 - 2:51 PM |AOL News

Kyodo News / AP

LOS ANGELES -- U.S. customs officials are scanning incoming airplane passengers from Japan for radiation, according to airport officials. Television anchor Frank Buckley of Los Angeles station KTLA...

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