Ok. Imagine this. You're walking down this street and someone asks you for your hair. You heard me. Right then and there. For your HAIR. You gotta read it to believe it.Ok. Imagine this. You're walking down this street and someone asks you for your hair.... more
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The University of Alaska Anchorage has been given $7 million by a mystery donor who has now gifted at least $81.5 million in total to 15 colleges run by women.
School chancellor Fran Ulmer announced the donation on Friday.
School officials say $6 million will be used for scholarships targeting women and minorities and the rest for a new science learning center opening next fall.
About 20,000 students are enrolled at the school.
The anonymous donor has been giving the money over the past two months.
Michigan's Kalamazoo College and New York's Hunter College also announced gifts from the anonymous donor this week.ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The University of Alaska Anchorage has been given $7 million by a... more
Gynecologists have revealed that couples in India are demanding to know the caste of sperm donors before proceeding with fertility treatment.Gynecologists have revealed that couples in India are demanding to know the caste of... more
A dear, kickass friend of mine tried surfing for the first time in Hawaii two years ago. He caught his first wave and never really bailed too hard. Then, a few hours later he was paralyzed from the waist down due to a condition called Surfer's Myelopathy.
Surfer's Myelopathy is a non-traumatic spinal cord injury that affects first-time surfers. Today, the Surfer' Myelopathy Foundation team announced the launch of the Foundation's website.
Check out the website, and although it's a rare condition, if you could find it in your heart to give to the foundation, I'd really appreciate it.A dear, kickass friend of mine tried surfing for the first time in Hawaii two years... more
Surgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant, the Daily Mail reports.
The 16-hour operation was carried out on a farm worker who lost both arms in an accident.
The 54-year-old man was given the arms of a teenage boy who is believed to have died in a road crash.
Plastic surgeon Professor Edgar Biemer and his colleague Christof Hoehnke led a surgical team of 30 to perform the operation at a clinic in Munich.
The patient, who lost his arms in a threshing machine six years ago, is said to be recovering well from the surgery. He is expected to remain in hospital for five weeks of intensive therapy, but doctors warned it was too early to say whether the transplant would succeed.
Professor Biemer, 65, said: ‘The forces of rejection are stronger with limbs than with any other transplants because the skin is the largest immune barrier for the body. It instinctively rejects skin it doesn’t recognise.
‘New medicines have been developed to stop this rejection and the patient in this case will be taking this medicine all his life.’
He said it was difficult to forecast the psychological effect on the man of having the arms of a youth 35 years his junior.
Wow. Two new arms? I wonder if they have any tattoos...
Surgeons have performed the world’s first double arm transplant, the Daily Mail... more
A look at the world of egg donors as told by a fertility doctor, surrogacy lawyer, two egg donors, and ovum donation agencies.A look at the world of egg donors as told by a fertility doctor, surrogacy lawyer, two... more
