Being transgender no longer about surgery in NY
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Jay Kallio knew at age 4. For Justine Nicholas, the revelation came in kindergarten. Nature had dealt them a confusing anatomy. The genders they were assigned at birth were all wrong.
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NEW YORK -- After years of painful soul searching, Rhiannon O'Donnabhain -- a former construction engineer from a devout Irish Catholic family in Boston -- decided to surgically change his sex to female in 2001. The struggle was equally tough financially -- hormone treatments and medical procedures...
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New York City's Board of Health bans artery-clogging trans-fats from restaurants in the Big Apple.
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Life & style: Surgeons report increase in reverse procedures, with Courtney Love and Katie Price signing up
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A Haitian teen whose facial features were once grossly distorted by a massive growth has undergone her fourth reconstructive surgery.
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Troubled by enlarged male breasts, boys are turning to surgery. Waiting may be wiser.
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Former President Bill Clinton has been moved to a New York hospital operating theatre for a heart bypass operation. Preparations began in an operating theatre at Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in upper Manhattan.
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Here's hoping you won't have to choose between health and comfort.
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Cosmetic procedures billed as "vaginal rejuvenation," "designer vaginoplasty" or even "revirgination" are not medically necessary and are not guaranteed to be safe, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists cautioned on Friday.
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Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has decided to have surgery in the United States, a close ally said Sunday amid news reports that the ailing media mogul would get a pacemaker.Comment
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Most doctors don't talk about breast reconstruction with women before cancer surgery, depriving them of key information that can sway their decision about whether to have the whole breast or just a lump removed, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis gave permission Wednesday for same-sex commitment ceremonies and ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, a wrenching change for a movement that occupies the middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in Judaism.
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Cosmetic surgery is altering not just how people look but how they feel by changing perceptions of middle age, a study showed Monday.
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A survey that was released Tuesday reports there is a big difference in how much people pay for prescription drugs in New York.
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My office telephone has been ringing with patients who have heard about former President Bill Clinton&#39;s surgery this month and wonder if they might need cardiac bypass themselves.
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell underwent breast-cancer surgery Monday after doctors discovered the disease in its very early stages, the governor's office said. Rell, 58, was expected to remain at Danbury Hospital until Wednesday, officials said.
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By Henry L. Davis  If all goes as planned, surgeons in Buffalo today will perform what they believe  to be the first organ transplant in New York State arranged over the Internet.  Paul Cardinale is a 35-year-old financial consultant from Lakewood near Jamestown.