A dispatch arrives from the cutting edge of science, where the wonders never cease:
Tongue made from buttocks
A Polish man who had his tongue removed has had a new one made using tissue taken from his buttocks.
Jarislav Ernst, 23, from Gliwice, now has a functioning tongue made from his backside after surgery at the Oncology Clinic in Gliwice's General Hospital.
Head doctor Stanislaw Poltorek said: "The new tongue is alive and well-supplied with blood, and the patient is doing well."
Mr Erns
Merle Haggard's concert at the Grove of Anaheim, scheduled for Dec. 4, has been canceled. Refunds are available at the point of purchase.
The official line is the show was scrapped due to "health issues;" the beloved country legend had surgery this Monday to remove a cancerous growth from his right lung. All the best to the Hag.
marosh / Flickr / Creative CommonsThis might sting a little.St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and UCI Medical Center in Irvine will both face administrative fines from the California Department of Public Health, the department announced today. Each fine is $25,000, and comes as a result of "a determination that the facilities' noncompliance with licensing
requirements has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or
death to patients."A total of 13 hospitals in California will be penaliz
Dr. Gary Rheinschild​For "Long and Short of It," Salon.com's Aug. 2, 1999, story on botched penile enlargement surgeries and the, ahem, lengths patients must go to if they safely want to increase the size of their members, reporter Michael Easterbrook turned to an Anaheim Hills urologist for expertise.Now, Dr. Gary Rheinschild, 75, faces
possible state discipline that could range from a public reprimand to loss of
his license over allegations he botched several penis enlargement surgeries
