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Biggs, age 79 and severely ill with pneumonia, remains at a hospital in Norwich, where is to undergo minor surgery. Following a series of strokes, he can no longer walk, is fed through a tube and communicates by pointing to letters of the alphabet on a board. The three prison guards who stood watch over his hospital bed round the clock have been removed. Their departure comes just one day ahead of Biggs' 80th birthday and the 46th anniversary of the train robbery...
...particularly proud to read your statement in which you identified and sympathized with black people far less privileged than yourself, who undergo similar arrest and even more suffering. As you remarked, their stories rarely make the national news. We will probably never know the full emotional state of the policeman who came to your own home in the belief that you were breaking and entering. We do know you, however. Rest assured we are in your corner...
...popular as bariatric surgery has become - each year, more than 200,000 people undergo stomach-shrinking procedures in an effort to lose weight - the reality is that there is still little information about which patients should be getting the surgeries or how effective they really are as a treatment for obesity...
...sign a raft of release forms so doctors don't get sued if problems arise. Patty Sosnader, who received a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease at the end of her first trimester, rejected her doctor's advice to abort and had to petition a hospital ethics board - and undergo psychiatric evaluation - in order to get the medications she sought. "It was very frustrating," says Sosnader, 45, a logistics manager for Procter & Gamble in Worcester, Pa. "Everyone had their own opinion about what I should do, but there were no facts to support any of it." (See how the FDA classifies...
...They are good people. I just think they've been misled by some in the alternative medical community.' DR. BRUCE BOSTROM, the pediatric oncologist who first treated Hauser. The boy has since agreed to undergo treatment...