A San Francisco judge has struck a proposed male circumcision ban from a November ballot, ruling that the city cannot regulate medical procedure and citing religious freedom protections.The ruling was applauded by opponents of the proposed ban, who attacked it as anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim.In May, advocates of a ban gathered enough voter signatures to put [...]
HONG KONG: Hands may say more about their owners than commonly thought, especially in the case of men.Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises, according to a South Korean study published in the Asian Journal of Andrology.”According to our data … the shorter index (second) finger than ring [...]
Substandard surgical tools from Pakistan are putting UK patients at risk of potentially deadly injury and infection, BBC Panorama has found.Faults include rough edges, steel burrs that can splinter during operations and corroded metals.All surgical instruments have to meet regulatory standards but only one of the more than 180 NHS trusts and boards conducts rigorous [...]
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get [...]
