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...foot-long horizontal cut was found across Andrews' abdomen, says Dr. Rogelio Marcial, the coroner. It was a postmortem assault. She had been killed with a gunshot wound to the back that pierced her heart. The baby was removed within the next seven to 10 minutes. "This was a well-planned affair," said Marcial. The information for making the cut is widely available. According to Marcial: "all you have to do is look at books or the Internet, something like Babyzone. It's just like making bombs." Police believe Michelle Bica may have started keeping track of Andrews when they...
Among the photos of Lisa Faiman '03, her favorite depicts the stretch marks on her own mother's abdomen. Smiling attractively, she recounts the story of how, one time, a male friend walked into her room, and, not realizing what the stretch marks were or that Faiman had taken the picture, exclaimed with distaste, "That is so disgusting...
...from the beginning, a case no one could win. For nearly two months, Britain has been riveted to the spectacle of Mary and Jodie (not their real names), twins born conjoined at their lower abdomen. Both girls are widely expected to die without a separation - an operation that will likely end Mary's life. Friday, an anguished Appeals Court in London upheld a lower court's decision to separate the infants, ruling it is legal to end Mary's life in order to defend Jodie. "I freely confess to having found [the decision] truly difficult to reach," one Justice said...
...they are now a lot easier to tolerate than they were 25 years ago, rabies shots are still given too often. Nearly 40% of patients who undergo the series of five shots in the arm each year may not need them. (Once a dozen notoriously painful injections in the abdomen was standard treatment). Doctors, usually E.R. docs, go ahead with the shots even when rabies is so rare in a locale that it doesn't pose any real threat. Other times, they don't bother to determine if the offending animal is in fact infected...
...Cynthia Herdrich of Bloomington, Ind., was first filed seven years ago, and focused on the monetary incentives HMOs offer to member physicians who find ways to avoid costly procedures. In 1992, Herdrich was forced to wait eight days for an ultrasound after doctors found a mass in her abdomen; according to her HMO, Herdrich's condition was not an emergency. Her appendix ruptured and necessitated emergency surgery, as well as several rounds of antibiotics. Herdrich sued her doctor in state court for monetary damages, and collected $35,000; she then sued her HMO under a federal law that regulates...