From Seattlepi.com: 
High Tylenol doses linked to liver woes
CHICAGO — Healthy adults taking maximum doses of Tylenol for two weeks had abnormal liver test results in a small study, researchers found, raising concerns that even recommended amounts of the popular painkiller might lead to liver damage.
In the study, 106 participants took four grams of Tylenol - […]

 
From YahooNews: 
Piece of man’s skull falls off, draws crowds
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
 
Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy’s skull came away Sunday after […]

 
(Safe For Work Photo of a Penile Implant)
From SFGATE.COM: 
Man With Faulty Penile Implant Gets $400K
A former handyman has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection.
Charles “Chick” Lennon, 68, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra went on the market. […]

From ABC News Online: 
Scientists help bodies grow new organs
A team of scientists and surgeons at a Melbourne hospital has developed a method of growing new organs within a patient’s body.
Previously, scientists had only been able to create two-dimensional constructions such as skin.
But researchers at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital […]

Wow.
They say the little guy is doing ok, and that the 3rd arm will be amputated, apparently neither of his left arms work.
But if they did, think of the possibiilties, he might have multiple offers from major league baseball teams, or maybe the NFL.  I bet it wouldn’t hurt with the ladies either, just more […]

 
From YahooNews:
STDs Running Rampant In Retirement Community
Doctors said sexually transmitted diseases among senior citizens are running rampant at a popular Central Florida retirement community, according to a Local 6 News report.
A gynecologist at The Villages community near Orlando, Fla., said she treats more cases of herpes and the human papilloma virus in the retirement community […]

One of my favorite charities is the International Ginger Kids Foundation.
For those who have never heard of Ginger Kids, I refer you to this Wikipedia Entry. 
Suffice it to say, these poor kids suffer from a terrible disease known as “Gingervitis”.  It’s really sad that so many children are born with this terrible disease. 
Many famous people […]

From YahooNews: 
US woman gets 1.27 million dollars after losing maggot-infested leg
MIAMI (AFP) - A US court awarded 1.27 million dollars to a woman whose leg had to be amputated after surgery left it infected and filled with maggots, the Palm Beach Post reported.
The 72-year-old house cleaner blamed the staff at a West Palm Beach, Florida […]

 
From SFGATE.COM: 
Cops Say Woman Charged Surgery to Bosses
A woman stole her employer’s credit cards and identity to steal more than $12,000, some of which went for breast enlargement surgery, police allege.
Jerri Ann Cozza, 35, was booked into the Spokane County Jail on Monday for investigation of 27 counts of first-degree identity theft, 26 counts of […]

From NBC10.COM: 
New Jersey May Legalize Medical Marijuana
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey would become the 12th state to legalize marijuana for people with debilitating medical conditions under a bill slated to be discussed next month by state lawmakers.
Sen. Joseph Vitale, chairman of a Senate health panel, said he’s scheduled a June 8 discussion to hear from […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
82-year-old kidney in 55-year-old man
BY JIM RITTER Staff Reporter
His birth certificate says he’s 55, but Bill Thompson’s kidney is 82 years old.
Thompson received the kidney in a 1966 transplant at Children’s Memorial Hospital that saved his life and made medical history.
(more here)

From MSNBC.COM:
Sharp drop in U.S. death rate surprises experts
More Americans staying alive, with biggest decline in deaths since 1940s
ATLANTA - In what appears to be an amazing success for American medicine, preliminary government figures released Wednesday showed that the annual number of deaths in the U.S. dropped by nearly 50,000 in 2004 — the biggest […]

 
From MSNBC.COM/NEWSWEEK;
The War on HPV
A new vaccine that prevents cervical cancer could be available soon.
By Claudia Kalb and Karen Springen
April 24, 2006 issue - Amelia Togba-Addy, a nurse at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, had always been in good health. But last October her gynecologist called with disturbing news: Togba-Addy’s latest Pap smear showed […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Lab-grown organs are science fiction no longer
Engineered bladders transplanted into 7 patients in ‘startling’ advance
BOSTON - The once-fanciful dream of regrowing the heart and other failing organs has suddenly edged closer to reality: The first complex organ, the bladder, has been rebuilt in seven patients from living tissue cultivated in the lab.
(more here)
That Picture’s […]