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When Gunther von Hagens’s exhibition came to town, security guards worried less about theft than nausea. Bridging art, science and spectacle, it was a blockbuster traveling show built around one of ...

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Sandra*, a 43-year-old media lawyer based in Los Angeles, had been toying with the idea of breast augmentation since her 20s, but was always put off by the pain of the procedure, the long recovery ...

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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11 of an aortic dissection, according to a preliminary medical examiner's report. Aortic dissection symptoms can come on rapidly and without ...

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The condition that killed Senator Lindsey Graham is deadly, sudden and difficult to treat — “like a knife to the heart,” one expert said. By Gina Kolata See more of our coverage in your search results ...