Photos: 'Dwarf': Woman's Extreme Surgeries to Grow Taller

Tiffanie DiDonato endured painful and controversial limb lengthening surgeries. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

How Sleepless Nights Affect Your Body

You're spent, yet you just can't shut off your mind and fall asleep. Follow one typical long night's journey into day. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

More than 100 graves robbed in Benin for voodoo rituals

COTONOU (Reuters) - Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities suspect is a black-market trade in human organs and skulls for voodoo ritual fetishes. The incident is the most serious case of grave-robbing in the West African state, the world capital of voodoo where most of the country's 9 million residents practice a benign form of the official religion. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

Sisters Donate Kidney, Liver To Save Brother

In an attempt to save their 12-year-old brother, two sisters from Sudan donated their liver and kidney which was transplanted successfully at a hospital in New Delhi. Mukhtar Ahmed Ali Gadkarim was suffering from kidney failure due to a rare disorder known as primary hyperoxaluria. While one of the sisters gave him a kidney, the other gave a part of the liver. The boy, who was admitted in the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Nov 6, was operated upon after ...

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Letter Campaign Seek Health Insurance For HIV-positive Patients

A group of NGOs displayed over 25,000 postcards with a message appealing to the health ministry to provide health insurance to HIV-positive patients. Ahead of World AIDS Day Dec 1, ten NGOs are conducting a "positive letter campaign" with postcards carrying the message: "Kindly provide Health Insurance to People Living with HIV AIDS (PLHA)". The message has been pinned up with the red ribbon that has come to symbolize HIV/AIDS. The public messages have ...

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Health Tip: Is Caffeine Giving You the Jitters?

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Health Tip: Limit Swelling While Wearing a Cast

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Obama takes "fiscal cliff" on the road; Republicans stew

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, reapplying his re-election campaign theme of protecting the middle class, heads to Pennsylvania on Friday suggesting that Republicans could spoil Christmas by driving the country over the "fiscal cliff." The president's road trip, visiting a factory that makes Tinkertoys, is infuriating Republicans, with House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner calling it a "victory lap" Thursday as he rejected Obama's proposals to avoid the cliff, which is a combination of tax increases and spending cuts set to start taking effect in January. ...

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Kenya village of AIDS orphans hangs hopes on trees

There are no middle-aged adults in the Kenyan village of Nyumbani. They all died years ago. Only the young and old live here. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

Committee nixes Michigan health exchange, now federal government may …

Committee nixes Michigan health exchange, now federal government may … Detroit Free Press The state Health Policy committee voted against creating a state-based health exchange mandated by federal health care reform. By a 5-9 vote, the committee killed the exchange, setting up the possibility that the federal government will come in and set …

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Surge in Surgeries to Get Rid of Male Breasts

Imbalance in sex hormones and increase in obesity may have led to an increase in cases of men having boobs. Called as man boobs, statistics show that many men have no qualms going under the knife to remove excess tissue growth. This condition is medically termed as gynaecomastia and is now common among thousands of men in UK. Statistics from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons reveal that nearly 790 men underwent the procedure to remove ...

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Faulty Thyroid Hikes Afib Risk (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Even mild disruptions in thyroid function may increase the risk of atrial fibrillation, Danish researchers found. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

3D Echo Tracks Heart Damage from Chemo (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Serial 3D echo measurements of cardiac function in women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer are more reproducible than 2D echo, researchers found. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

Conducting Simple Check at Birth may Predict Childhood Obesity

Researchers from Imperial College London have said that using a simple formula at birth may help predict if the infant will suffer childhood obesity in future. The study involved data from 4,032 Finnish children born in 1986. The researchers also analyzed data from two further studies of 1,503 Italian children and 1,032 US children. Simple measurements such as a child's birth weight and whether the mother smoked during pregnancy were able to predict the risk ...

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First Swap Kidney Transplant in AP

A first-ever "swap kidney transplant' has taken place in Andhra Pradesh involving 50-year-old M.M. Baig and 44-year-old Devidas. The two patients were suffering from end-stage renal disease and needed kidney transplants. The problem arose when it was found that their wives were not matching donors for their husbands. Baig's wife Ayesha's blood group was 'A positive', while his was 'B positive' and Devidas' blood group was 'A positive' while that of his wife Nirmala ...

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