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The Week in Weird (Penis Museum Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL NewsWelcome to our weekly roundup of the strangest, weirdest and most exquisitely bizarre news items of the last seven days. After scouring hundreds of oddities, we found a few that really rise to the top -- or sink to the bottom, as the case may be. With the exception of a story about dogs with fake IDs, all the rest of the stories seem to be sexual things, from kinky taxes to one man who donated his penis to a museum, and another who was less humanitarian with his own (to the dismay of his female patients). So enjoy the stories and we'll have even more for you next week. Behold the power of ...
Mother and Son Are Heart Transplant Recipients [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsBrenda Brown and her son, Earl, have an unusual bond: They are both heart transplant recipients. The pair talk about their remarkable experiences with "NBC Nightly News." Put more Good in your life! Follow AOL's Good News on Twitter and Facebook. ...
Health Crisis Leads California Woman to Her Life's Work [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsProfessional dancer Ava Kaufman discovered her true life's work after a successful heart transplant helped her survive a devastating illness. Terrified that she wouldn't live long enough to raise her 12-year-old daughter, Jade, the California woman promised God that if she survived the transplant, she'd spend the rest of her life helping others. Kaufman now spends time teaching teenagers about the importance of organ donations and comforting those awaiting new hearts, "NBC Nightly News" reports. Get your daily Good! Follow AOL's Good News on Twitter and Facebook. ...
Christina Green Organ Donation Saves Boston Girl
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe family of Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl killed when a gunman opened fire on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a "Congress on Your Corner" event, has donated some of her organs, already saving another child's life. Some of the organs went to a little girl in Boston, CNN reported. "It was very poignant to find out. That's what Christina was all about," father John Green told CNN. "It's a blessing." Los Angeles Times / MCT The family of Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old killed in Tucson shootings, donated her organs to help others. Her father told CNN some of her ...
New York Effort Aims to Increase Number of Donor Organs
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyMore than 6,500 people die each year waiting for a donor organ, and New York City is going to test a program aimed at increasing the number of organs available for donation, the mayor's office and the New York Organ Donation Network announced Wednesday. Although many Americans have signed organ donor cards or registered with organ donor databases, until now organs could be recovered only from the bodies of people who died in hospitals, the mayor's office said in a news release. The program being tested in Manhattan -- in partnership with Bellevue Hospital and the city's police and fire ...
Record-Setting Surgeries Save the Lives of 13 People
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 14) -- Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify. "A whole new doorway of hope opened," says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who traveled halfway across the country to Georgetown University Hospital to give a stranger a kidney so his wife would get one in return. Relative after relative failed to be the match his wife, Irene, needed. Tests finally showed her body ...
National Donor Sabbath: Organs not Alms
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyChristianity has the sacred text about not hiding a light under a bushel. But the basic idea is in pretty much every religion: You have a good idea, you have some obligation to let people know about it. Which is why I'm puzzled about one particular good idea I've recently run across. Have you ever heard of the National Donor Sabbath? This year's commemoration of a weekend to encourage organ donation starts today. The official Web site explains: "National Donor Sabbath is part of a donation initiative launched by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 1997. Observed on ...
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