NEW YORK — A representative for Mary Tyler Moore said Thursday that the veteran sitcom star has gone in to a facility for surgery to remove a benign tumor on the lining of her brain. Spokeswoman Alla Plotkin says Moore’s doctors recommended the elective procedure after monitoring the tumor “for years.” Plotkin would not specify if the surgery had already taken place, or how Moore was doing. The procedure was to remove a meningioma, a slow-growing tumor in the membranes that cover the brain. Meningiomas usually occur in older adults and are mostly benign. Read full article > >

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Did she or didn’t she? For a week, gossips have been closely scrutinizing recent photos of a streamlined Bristol Palin : Did she simply lose weight, or get a something little extra done to the face? On Wednesday she acknowledged to US Weekly that yes, she had work done on her jaw. But “it’s not plastic surgery,” she maintains. She was just following doctor’s orders, really. Palin explains that back in December 2010 (i.e. after you saw her in “Dancing With the Stars”), she had a corrective jaw surgery. “It improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons…so my jaw and teeth could properly realign…I don’t obsess over my face,” she explains. Read full article > >

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The recipient of America’s first full face transplant has expressed his gratitude after regaining his sense of smell following a 15-hour surgery.

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The recipient of America’s first full face transplant says his newly regained sense of smell is among the top benefits of the surgery.

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Roger Ebert has a new prosthetic chin after losing much of his lower jaw to cancer in 2006. The silicone piece was sculpted to look like his face before his surgery. “This device would fit over my lower face and neck and, colored to match my skin,…

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has reportedly survived her surgery and doctors are “optimistic” about her recovery. Six others have died, though, including District Judge John Roll and, reportedly, a young child. A total of 18 people were injured.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has reportedly survived her surgery after being shot in the head during a public event at a Safeway grocery store in Tucson on Saturday. A trauma surgeon says he is “optimistic” about her chances. Earlier reports…

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In sad news for 30 Rock fans, star Tracy Morgan will be missing a few episodes of the comedy series after recently undergoing a kidney transplant. He won’t appear in two to three episodes that are scheduled to air in March. Morgan underwent the surgery…

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Richard Holbrooke made his last words count: “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan,” he told his Pakistani surgeon before the 21-hour surgery on Saturday. So what did Holbrooke think about the war? Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars sheds light on his…

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Scientists performed surgery on the hoods of cobras to determine how ribs turned into hood bones and rib muscles turned into hooding muscles. A number of the snakes awoke from anesthesia during the surgery, which the scientists found “disconcerting.” An escaped monocled cobra in Germany succumbed to exhaustion after being caught by double-sided tape. After the roof collapsed on a rabbit show in Nyköping, Sweden, many of the rabbits—including British giants, dwarf hotots, Himalayans, and lionheads—mated amid the ruins. A young Floridian bald eagle was recovering after being struck by a golf ball. The Poultry Research Unit at Mississippi State University reported success in more efficiently heating the houses of broiler chickens. The Welsh planned to continue killing their badgers. Greek researchers tracked brown bears who rub against telephone poles and occasionally gnaw through them. Zoologists revealed the existence of an Amazonian leech with giant teeth, tiny genitalia, and a preference for living in people’s noses. Otolaryngologists placed gyroscopes in the mouths of dolphins and on the horns of bulls. Researchers discovered that horned-frog tadpoles scream in distress. “We have,” said the lead researcher, “definitely underestimated their abilities.” . . .

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For the past year and a half, the name Stephen Strasburg has sent bolts of electricity through the nervous systems of baseball fans, scouts, and players, but for the next year — if not more — it will provide us with nothing more than frustration. After just 12 tantalizing major league starts, Strasburg’s right arm gave out on him in the fifth inning of his start against the Phillies last Saturday. On Thursday, the results of his enhanced MRI came in, and they were not good. Strasburg has been diagnosed with “a significant tear” in his pitching elbow and is apparently headed for ligament-replacement, a.k.a. Tommy John, surgery, which will likely to keep him out of action through the end of the 2011 season. That’s a huge blow to the Washington Nationals and to major league baseball and its fans in general, as all have lost a captivatingly unique young talent for more than a calendar year, but what exactly does it mean for the burgeoning career of the 22-year-old pitcher actually having the surgery?

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