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...shark attack is rarely fatal, but it can be terrifying. Training for a triathlon on Gulf Shores Beach, Ala., Chuck Anderson watched in horror as a shark took off his fingertips, then kept coming back. "The fourth time, my right arm went into his mouth, and we went down to the bottom," he says. Anderson fought for his life, with the shark biting up and down on his arm until he heard the bone snap and break off in the shark's mouth. Anderson made it to shore and survived. He doesn't blame the shark for taking his arm...
JUST DON'T SHOOT ME Though 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...
...Haworth, at 5 ft. 10 in. and 300 lbs., is an exceptional athlete in a body that screams couch potato. As a high school softball player, she was so good that kids called her "the Arm," but Haworth wasn't satisfied with the game. Her dad, knowing she had always been interested in those bodybuilding TV shows, took her to see Cohen in 1996. When Haworth lifted a bar with more than 100 lbs. on it "like it was a loaf of bread," he knew he'd found a keeper...
...hooking hand to arm was the easy part. Getting the improbable graft to do the work of an ordinary hand was another matter. Now, it seems, that hurdle has been surmounted...
...Louisville School of Medicine, and Dr. Jon Jones, now at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., seems to have overcome the most formidable challenge of such a procedure--long-term limb rejection. While immune-suppressant drugs have improved the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants, the arm is composed of several different tissues, which trigger different degrees of rejection reactions. Doctors have been fighting them all with an intensive, three-pronged drug attack that includes steroids, which Scott is required to down every day for life...