hepatitis
Sep 25 2008, Tina Peden

I have a friend, let’s call her “Tasha” just in case she’s reading this website.

The girl is mega-sensitive!

Dilemma: Tasha has this disgusting habit of taking small pieces of food from other people’s plates and eating them. She...

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A relative sits near an unconscious hepatitis patient in special isolation ward at a civil hospital in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Authorities in western India have arrested eight doctors for alleged medical malpractice after a hepatitis B...