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Dec 2006Chances that a patient who undergoes weight-loss surgery will develop complications within six months: 2 in 5
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Rockville, Md.)

Sep 2006Rank of AIDS and pregnancy, respectively, among the top causes of death worldwide for girls aged 10 to 19: 1,2
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World Health Organization (Geneva)

Sep 2006Percentage of pharmaceutical trials in 1997 that were performed in the developing world: 3



Percentage today: 18
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Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Boston)

Oct 2005Percentage of patients hearing voices who hear a male voice, according to a British study: 71
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Tony Nayani and Anthony David, Kings College Hospital (London)

Oct 2005Chances that a user of Pfizer’s new Parkinson’s disease drug will become a pathological gambler as a result: 3 in 200
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Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)

Oct 2005Percentage by which the average amount of anesthetic required by redheads exceeds the average for everyone: 19
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Daniel I. Sessler and Edwin B. Liem, University of Louisville

Oct 2005Chance that a medical study may be inaccurate or misleading, according to the AMA’s journal: 1 in 3
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JAMA (Chicago)

Sep 2005Amount allocated for investigating health-care fraud in 2003 that the FBI cannot account for : $114,000,000
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U.S. Government Accountability Office

Sep 2005Minimum number of prescription drugs currently under investigation for Medicaid price-gouging or marketing fraud : 500
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U.S. Department of Justice

Jul 2005Percentage of Bill Frist’s medical-school class that sent him a letter accusing him of misusing his degree: 18
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Muriel Gillick, M.D. (Boston)

Jan 2004Rank of rhinoplasty and liposuction among the most common plastic surgeries performed on men in the U.S. : 1, 2
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American Society of Plastic Surgeons (Arlington Heights, Ill.)

Jan 2004Rank of rhinoplasty and penile enlargement among those most commonly performed on men in the U.K. : 2, 1
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The Harley Medical Group (London)

Dec 2003 Factor by which antibiotic treatment before the age of 6 months increases the chance of developing asthma by age 7: 2.6
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Henry Ford Health System (Detroit)

Nov 2003Percentage change since 2000 in the number of U.S. surgeries performed each year to treat morbid obesity: +178
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American Society for Bariatric Surgery (Gainesville, Fla.)

Oct 2003Estimated market value of the usable body parts of an adult human : $46,000,000
Source:

Wired (San Francisco)

Jun 2003Minimum number of chronic medical disorders linked to exposure to industrial chemicals: 110
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Natural Resources Defense Council (San Francisco)

May 2003Percentage change since 1988 in the average subscription price of a U.S. scientific, medical, or technical journal: +250
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Prof. Mark J. McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)

May 2003Number of U.S. doctors per pharmaceutical-sales representative in 1995 and last year, respectively: 19, 9
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Verispan (Newtown, Pa.)/American Medical Association (Chicago)

Nov 2002Maximum milligrams of speed prescribed to U.S. pilots by military doctors during the Persian Gulf War: 5
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U.S. Air Force Surgeon General (Washington)

Aug 2002Chance that an American filing for bankruptcy last year did so because of medical expenses: 1 in 2
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Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (Washington)

Jun 2002Months after the building's inauguration in December that Israel used three U.S.-made missiles to destroy it: 2.5
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Amnesty International (London)/Harper's research

Feb 2002Estimated number of appendectomies performed each year on Americans without appendicitis: 40,000
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University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)

Aug 2001Percentage change since 1998 in the amount Americans spend each year on prescription drugs: +40
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National Institute for Health Care Management (Washington)

Jun 2001Number of medical scholarships that Cuba announced it would offer U.S. minorities next year: 500
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Congressional Black Caucus (Washington)

Apr 2001Tons of antibiotics and antimicrobials given to healthy U.S. farm animals each year: 12,500
Source:

Union of Concerned Scientists (Cambridge, Mass.)

Apr 2001Chance that an American's Streptoccocus pneumoniae infection is resistant to penicillin: 1 in 4
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)

Feb 2001Percentage of doctors at a New York City hospital who report often not knowing the cost of the drugs they prescribe: 80
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Dr. Ethan Halm, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2001Number of British doctors who visited Cuba last March to study its health-care system: 115
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Conference Plus (Radlett, England)

Jan 2001Chance that an American who visited an emergency room for a shuffleboard injury that year was a senior citizen: 1 in 2
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National Injury Information Clearinghouse (Washington)

Dec 2000Number of American states in which physicians may legally prescribe clean needles to addicts: 48
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Prof. Scott Burris, Temple Law School (Philadelphia)

Dec 2000Number of these states in which physicians may legally prescribe clean needles to addicts in which pharmacists may legally fill such prescriptions: 26
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Prof. Scott Burris, Temple Law School (Philadelphia)

Oct 2000Average number of corpses per acre at the University of Tennessee's “body farm,” for the study of decomposition: 10
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University of Tennessee (Knoxville)

Mar 2000Number of Parisians who break bones or are hospitalized each year after slipping on dog feces: 650
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Office of the Mayor (Paris)

Feb 2000Ratio of the number of Americans killed in traffic accidents in 1998 to the number killed by medical errors: 1:1
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Institute of Medicine (Washington);

Feb 2000Rank of self-inflicted wounds among the top injuries for which teenage girls were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1
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New York State Department of Health (Albany)

Feb 2000Rank of assault among the top causes of injuries for which teenage boys were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1
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New York State Department of Health (Albany)

Jan 2000Year in which a medical dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite” for the opposite sex: 1901
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James R. Petersen, The Century of Sex, Grove Press (N.Y.C.)

Nov 1999Change since 1987 in a household's annual spending on medical services, supplies, and drugs: -$99.69
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U.S. Department of Labor

Nov 1999Percentage change since 1995 in the number of surgeons worldwide using maggots to cleanse wounds: +400
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Biosurgical Research Unit, Princess of Wales Hospital (South Wales, U.K.)

Oct 1999Percentage of the 2.3 million gallons of blood Americans could donate each month that they actually do: 0.1
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American Association of Blood Banks (Bethesda, Md.)

Sep 1999Average number of different drug prescriptions filled each year by an American over the age of 74: 12
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AARP (Washington)

Sep 1999Pages of the British royal family's medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70
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Scottish Sun (Glasgow)

Aug 1999Average number of Americans killed each week by prescription drugs: 1,900
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Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)

Aug 1999Percentage of the medical supplies bought since 1996 under Iraq's oil-for-food program that has been distributed: 43
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U.N. Security Council (N.Y.C.)

Jul 1999Chances that a U.S. Catholic hospital does not provide emergency contraception to rape victims: 4 in 5
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Catholics for a Free Choice (Washington)

Mar 1999Ratio of the number of doctors per capita in the U.S. to the number of doctors per capita in Cuba: 1:2
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Pan-American Health Organization (Washington)/American Medical Association (Chicago)/Bureau of the Census

Jan 1999Estimated number of people who watched a live Webcast of a hair transplant last fall: 8,000
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America's Health Network (Orlando, Fla.)

Jan 1999Number of emergency-room visits in 1997 by elderly Americans injured while snowboarding: 75
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Bethesda, Md.)

Nov 1998Average percentage by which an American woman's out-of-pocket medical spending exceeds that of an American man: 68
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Women's Research &Education Institute (Washington)

Oct 1998Percentage by which HMO Kaiser Permanente estimates that covering Viagra would drive up its pharmacy costs: 10
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Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)

May 1998Factor by which U.S. deaths from prescription and medication errors increased between 1983 and 1993: 2.6
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Professor David P. Phillips, University of California at San Diego (La Jolla, Calif.)

May 1998Amount for which a Missouri inmate offered to sell one of his organs last winter to pay legal fees: $50,000
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H. Andrew Chastain, Crossroads Correctional Center (Cameron, Mo.)

May 1998Percentage of parents who say that they would abort a fetus found to be predisposed to obesity: 11
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New England Regional Genetics Group (Newton, Mass.)

Apr 1998Amount that U.S. health-care professionals owe in defaulted student loans: $107,000,000
Source:

Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)

Apr 1998Rank of chiropractors among those most likely to default on their student loans: 1
Source:

Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)

Apr 1998Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10
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Consulting Radiologists Limited (Minneapolis)

Apr 1998Percentage of U.S. hospital deaths that follow a decision to withhold treatment: 70
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Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 256 (Chicago)

April 5, 2008 Doctors in Al-Anbar province connected a deadly malarial infection to Blackwater, whose contract the U.S. State Department recently renewed and who are currently under investigation by the FBI for the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians.
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IPS.org

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BBCnews.com

March 14, 2008The cubicle turned 40, Viagra turned 10, and Hotel Luxor, the oldest whorehouse in Germany's red light district, announced that it would close for lack of business.
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Time

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Yahoo News

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Associated Press

November 2, 2007 Rudy Giuliani conceded that although his campaign's statistic for prostate cancer survival rates in Britain was seven years old and 30 points off, Americans should still be wary of “socialized medicine.” “If we ever got to Hillarycare in this country,” said Giulani, “Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

September 3, 2007 Psychiatrists announced that diagnoses of bipolar disorder in U.S. children have increased by 4,000 percent over the last 10 years.
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International Herald Tribune

August 11, 2007An eight-foot-five-inch Ukrainian, Leonid Stadnyk, was declared the world's tallest man; locals attributed his size to a brain operation in adolescence, and the penurious Stadnyk lamented that his continuous growth had ended his career as a veterinarian when he became too large to fit into a car and his fingers grew too big for him to press buttons. “Doctors tell me I will live a long life,” he said. “I hope it will be in happiness.”
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Scotsman

June 11, 2007 Medical examiners announced that a 17-year-old U.S. track star who died in April overdosed on muscle-rub.
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New Scientist

May 31, 2007An Italian doctor built vaginas for two women who lacked them due to Mayer-von Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome.
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Reuters via ABC (Australia)

May 31, 2007 Serb farmers were exchanging cows for penis-enlargement surgery.
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Independent Online

May 29, 2007In New York, a psychologist named Gordon Gallup announced that semen may be a powerful and addictive antidepressant for women.
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Psychology Today

May 8, 2007The trial of Rafiq Sabir, a physician charged with conspiring to provide medical care to Al Qaeda, began. Evidence presented in the case included a recording of jazz bassist and martial-arts expert Tarik Shah, a good friend of Sabir's, teaching an FBI informant how to rip out a throat. “It fills their lungs with blood,” he explained.
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NYT

May 8, 2007The Milwaukee Brewers were giving away two free tickets to any fan who had his prostate examined.
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MLB.com

April 20, 2007Doctors in New York City removed a woman's gallbladder through her vagina.
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New York Times

March 23, 2007 White House press secretary Tony Snow announced that he would soon undergo surgery to remove a growth from his lower abdomen.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

March 21, 2007To test the integrity of ten local hospitals, journalists in Hangzhou, China, replaced their urine samples with tea; six of the hospitals diagnosed the reporters with urinary tract infections.
Source:

Reuters via Yahoo! Lifestyle

February 15, 2007 Chinese authorities sentenced businessman Wang Zhendong to death for his role in duping 10,000 investors out of $390 million in a giant ant-farming scam.
Source:

BBC

February 8, 2007A study conducted at the University of Chicago found that 14 percent of American doctors thought it was morally acceptable to lie to their patients about treatment options.
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Daily Telegraph

December 13, 2006The National Institutes of Health said that circumcision is an effective method to limit heterosexual transmission of HIV.
Source:

MSNBC

December 1, 2006 Experts warned people with pacemakers that refrigerator magnets “can be a killer.”
Source:

BBC

November 20, 2006American scientists announced the creation of a self-aware robot that can heal itself.
Source:

Information Week

November 1, 2006A New Hampshire orthodontist bought back local kids' Halloween candy for two dollars per pound.
Source:

WSBTV Atlanta

October 11, 2006In Israel, four doctors were arrested for carrying out illegal, non-consensual medical experiments on their patients.
Source:

Haaretz

September 26, 2006Milagros, a Peruvian “mermaid” girl whose fused legs were separated by surgeons, took her first steps.
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AP via SBS

September 5, 2006 Britain's Royal Preston Hospital unveiled the “Inter-Faith Gown,” a hospital garment modeled on the Muslim burka.
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Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report

August 30, 2006 Indian doctors were attempting to treat a girl who weeps tears of stone.
Source:

Times of India

August 24, 2006 F.D.A. representative Dr. Janet Woodcock said that selling the Plan B contraceptive over the counter would transform it into an “urban legend” that would tempt adolescents to create “sex-based cults.”
Source:

New York Times

August 10, 2006 Doctors in India speculated that the birth of a one-eyed girl might be attributable to her mother's exposure to Cyclopamine, a cancer drug derived from wild corn lily that causes cyclopia in sheep.
Source:

Wired News

July 30, 2006 Doctors in India removed a 15-year-old dead fetus from a woman's womb.
Source:

Times of India

July 25, 2006 Radiologists announced that many Americans were becoming too fat for X-rays.
Source:

Reuters

June 5, 2006 Surgeons in Shanghai successfully removed a baby boy's third arm.
Source:

AP

May 31, 2006In China doctors were trying to determine which left arm to remove from a three-armed baby.
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BBC

May 13, 2006In Nigeria more than 150 people, some of them stealing fuel from a pipeline, died when the pipeline exploded. "By tomorrow," said a health commissioner, "we will dig a bigger ditch and bury them all."
Source:

Reuters

April 19, 2006 British doctors criticized China for harvesting organs for transplant from thousands of executed prisoners.
Source:

BBC News

April 7, 2006A chiropractor in Ohio was in trouble for telling his patients that he could cure their ills by traveling back in time to when the injury occurred (a practice he calls "Bahlaqeem").
Source:

MSNBC

April 2, 2006A Swedish study linked heavy cell-phone use to malignant brain tumors.
Source:

The Jerusalem Post

March 6, 2006Only 75 psychiatrists remained in Iraq.
Source:

Democracy Now!

February 23, 2006A hospital in Queens, New York, was investigating how a baby that died soon after birth was sent to a laundry service.
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Newsday.com

January 18, 2006The French face-transplant patient was smoking through her recently grafted-on lips.
Source:

MSNBC

November 30, 2005Surgeons in France performed a partial face transplant, taking the nose and lips of a brain-dead donor and grafting them onto the face of a woman who had been severely disfigured by a dog.
Source:

BBC News

November 17, 2005A new nasal spray made women want sex.
Source:

Local6.com

November 14, 2005In Chhattisgarh, India, a three-day-old baby died from an infection when her parents were unable to afford surgery. The baby had been born with her heart in her hand.
Source:

MSNBC

October 24, 2005 William Shatner passed a kidney stone.
Source:

14WFIE

October 6, 2005A new vaccine that prevents cervical cancer was found to be 100 percent effective.
Source:

CNN.com

September 12, 2005It was revealed that, several months before it issued a warning, the FDA had been aware that the Guidant Ventak Prizm 2 DR heart defibrillator had a tendency to short-circuit.
Source:

The New York Times

August 29, 2005 Scientists announced that they had created mice that could regrow amputated extremities.
Source:

The Australian

August 25, 2005The FDA was working out a plan to regulate medicinal maggots and leeches, both of which it has classified as "devices." "The primary mode of action for maggots," said a representative from a medicinal maggot firm, "is chewing."
Source:

The New York Times

July 15, 2005Prayer was found to be no help for heart patients.
Source:

BBC News

June 30, 2005In New Zealand a baby boy undergoing penis-enla