"The A-Tube is a thin silicone rubber tube that connects the inside of the stomach directly to a discreet, poker-chip sized Skin-Port o...
Something to think about before you spring for that gastric bypass surgery.
... consider that, in this context, the opposite of stress is control . Is that true? For some, I would think, too much control would lead t...
"And when I do, I won't take any money from them."
Look at the pictures of Richard Lee Norris before and after his horrible gunshot injury and then 7 months after he got a new face, teeth, t...
Founded by Nick Teich, identified by the Boston Globe as "a social worker who is pursuing a doctorate in social policy from Brandeis....
"We’d always heard about that mythically quirky place called Madison, a free-spirited land with far fewer chain stores and BlackBerry a...
Said feminist attention-seeker and erstwhile Al-Gore-adviser Naomi Wolf. "I realised one day, as I gazed out on the treetops outside t...
Said the children's surgeon, who died yesterday in Lake Michigan, saving children.
Wrote Fania Pascal, back in the 1930: I croaked: “I feel just like a dog that has been run over.” He was disgusted: “You don’t know what a d...
"I thought, I'll get rid of it.... I have the ability to solve problems in a second." Said the professor , explaining his thin...
At Rikers Island, they only give you 4 minutes to eat, but in his condition, Michael Isola needed to chew and swallow slowly . Speed-eating ...
"You're going to love Ann Coulter! You're going to love Glenn Beck!" "No way!" protested Tim, a staunch Democrat...
"The new studies... are part of a push by surgeons and obesity experts to establish a role for the operations in treating diabetes, no...
Malcolm Gladwell quotes Walter Isaacson quoting Laurene Powell quoting her husband Steve Jobs. Powell lived with her fabulously wealthy husb...
Intersexed in Kenya. "Sometimes I feel like committing suicide because it is very difficult when you are rejected by a whole community ...
"Indiana Republican governor Mitch Daniels was hit in the forehead by a swinging door after concluding a workout Friday afternoon, prom...
"[D]octors ... opted for a prosthesis because the original bone was shattered and contaminated by the bullet... [S]ome fragments of the...
Heard by a woman having her eye surgically removed. Although normally a patient does not remember anything about surgery that involves gene...
