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...result of Malt’s reputation in the medical community, hospitals as far away as China and Iran asked him to teach the techniques of surgical limb reattachment...
Ronald Malt, a Harvard Medical School professor who performed the first successful surgical reattachment of a human limb, died of Alzheimer’s Disease...
...early age, changing the laws is the only solution to the problem. Rob Viscome would still be alive if he and his buddies had been drinking at a Spanish club, where people do not get out of control and into fights. Hugo would not have risked life and limb running drunkenly from 1,200-pound bulls. Countless other teens would have avoided run-ins with the law and damage to their health if they could drink in public. As the Spaniards know well, a lot of moderate drinking is healthier than any heavy boozing...
...watches her go. He knows she can't run far. Her leg is still weak, and in any case no one ventures alone outside this isolated Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, a tiny fortress under constant threat of Palestinian attack. Three of Ophir Cohen's eight children lost limbs in the bus bombing, an incident that shook his commitment to stay in Kfar Darom, a settlement of 51 families. But after living near Tel Aviv for 21 months during the children's rehabilitation, Cohen and his wife Noga brought their family back. "It wasn't easy," says Cohen, watching...
...mystery, Carter commissioned an anatomical study of the corpse in 1925 that turned out to be less autopsy than butchery. The unguents that saturated the mummy's bandages glued them in place, which meant the body was damaged as it was removed from the sarcophagus. Studying the corpse literally limb by limb, the first anatomist found nothing suspicious. More than 40 years later, however, in 1968, a University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area...