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Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world’s three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that their techniques were surprisingly effe
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...
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City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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They flock from other states and climes to the coast known as the Grand Strand, first as tourists, and later as residents, captivated by ocean views, rolling green...
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China will investigate whether 17 Japanese tourists received illegal organ transplants, state media said Tuesday.
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AP, Clifton
Five fortunate organ recipients are meeting the New Jersey family whose loss became their gain.
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AP, Dallas
A 7-year-old girl received a new heart Monday, more than eight months after she and her older sister were put on the transplant list because of the same rare ailment.
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Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide...
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Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if...
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Pope Benedict XVI on Friday lamented the shortage of organs for transplants but denounced any selling of organs as immoral.
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Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ.
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A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
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Timothy Garon’s face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months pregnant.His...
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Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18...
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A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had...
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Federal officials are investigating what three hospitals knew and told four organ transplant patients about a high-risk donor who infected them with HIV and...
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A troubling case in which a high-risk organ donor infected four patients with the AIDS virus and hepatitis has led medical ethicists to warn that patients need to know...
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An organ donor infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the U.S. in at least 13 years.The...
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Bone marrow transplants are one of cancer care’s striking successes, but they have a dark side: The transplanted cells can turn on patients, attacking their skin...
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Chinese medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families.The agreement was...
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A new study carried on wood frogs revealed that they are continuously undergoing freeze-thaw cycles. Kenneth Storey, a professor of biochemistry at Carleton University...
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The year 2006 is about to go away and we are ready to take on 2007 with a healthy body. As other years that have passed away, the year of 2006 also became the year of...
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Transplant recipients, Migdalia Torres, left, of Cleveland, Ohio, (kidney) watches a video tribute of her donor, Dennis John Malloosseril along with John’s sister Lois, right, at St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church in Clifton, N.J., Sunday, Feb....
