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Delloyd Hill, Alleged Doctor Impostor, Possibly Carried Out Similar Schemes in Multiple States

It could be a coincidence -- but it probably isn't. Delloyd Thomas Hill was arraigned yesterday in Queens criminal court on charges relating to a signature forgery scheme that netted him at least $415,000 in medical equipment loans. Hill's alleged crimes are awfully similar to the Delloyd T. Hill w ... More >>

Chloe Sevigny Flashes Her Prosthetic Penis

Chloe Sevigny played the love interest of Brandon Teena in the powerful Boys Don't Cry, so she's no stranger to projects about gender outlaws. This time around, in DirecTV's Hit & Miss, she's a pre-operative hit man, and the shock value starts from the first frame; she is shown nude, complete with ... More >>

Rx: A Prescription for Laughter

From the writer of 100 Saints You Should Know, a comic meditation on medication

Rx

Pilates Ate a Breast Implant

​This is reason #137 that we don't quite trust Pilates. (Yes, we know, some swear by it, but when we work out, we want to do more than make those weird little flappy motions with our hands, and "make a corset with our ribs," not to mention, there's the distinct sense that we're doing it all wr ... More >>

Danny Tenaglia

Photos: Inside the Sanitation Building Where Occupy Wall Street's Stuff Is Being Held

As we reported earlier today, press aren't allowed inside the Sanitation facility on 57th Street where the city is storing Occupy Wall Street protesters' belongings taken during the Zuccotti raid. We'd heard reports of disarray and damage inside and had seen photos of smashed laptops, and now the Vo ... More >>

Dog Has Four Prosthetic Legs, Does Not Let That Get Him Down

Aw. Naki'o is apparently the first dog ever to get a full set of bionic paws. And he is so happy! His own paws were "severely hurt from stepping into an ice puddle as a puppy," according to Incredible Features. Hence, the prosthetics, designed and fitted by Martin Kaufmann, founder of Orthopets, whi ... More >>

Miniature Pony Gets Prosthetic Leg, Can Gallop Again

Here is your feel-good story of the day: It seems a miniature pony named Midnight had only a nub for a back leg. He was taken to a rescue in Ft. Worth, and was in critical condition at the youthful age of four. The folks at the rescue asked, of prosthetics, "If it can be done for humans, could it be ... More >>

A "Star Trek" Alien Lives in Flatbush

Indie filmmakers Kasia Kowalczyk and Tal Harris make shit awesome

Scientists Cure Baldness in Mice; Mice Fedora Industry Panics

​Scientists have accidentally discovered a five-day treatment that reverses baldness in mice, ABC News reports. Does this mean you will never have to tell someone his thinning hair looks "dignified" ever again? Maybe. Dr. Mulugeta Million and his team of scientists (we'll call them "The Millio ... More >>

Flight Attendant Forced to Show Prosthetic Breast During Patdown; TSA Horror Stories Keep Coming

Cathy Bossi​We could probably start an entire blog about the recent wave of outrageous airport security stories as the holidays approach. For those keeping score at home, we have so far: mood-setting freedom fighter John Tyner, the "Atom Bomb" tattoo guy, the screaming 3-year-old, soldiers wit ... More >>

Worst Subway Story Ever: Woman With Prosthetic Leg Run Over By 11 Trains

​Worst story of the day, here. At least, we hope it's the worst story of the day (or week, or year), because topping this is kind of unimaginable. According to the New York Post, a 25-year-old woman named Arabell Lin, who had a prosthetic leg, was walking between the cars of a Coney Island-bou ... More >>

Video: Boy Hearing for the First Time Intended to Make You Cry, Ovulate

So, there's this video going around the internet of a little boy after receiving a cochlear implant - the surgically-implanted device designed to help the hearing-impaired or fully dead actually hear - and hearing from the first time. Woman, man, whatever: if your biological clock is ticking at any ... More >>

Boy George's Immortal Sake Commercial With Leslie Jordan

​Pixieish Leslie Jordan (who was Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace) has a one-man off-Broadway show in which he talks about the horror of doing a sake commercial with Boy George in the Mojave desert. Jordan says he was outfitted with all kinds of suffocating prosthetics, lenses, and wigs in orde ... More >>

The Morning Ink: Monday, March 29th, 2010

​So starts our morning news roundup. Today: the housing law in New York you're probably breaking right now. The hot ticket that is President Obama's Passover Seder. Lindsay Lohan's yayo "uh oh," a riot at Rikers, Christian Militia madmen, and more. Here's what's in the news this morning:

Stupidest Thing Said (So Far) About Bill Clinton's Hospitalization

​"Now, a timely reminder: Stents don't grow on trees. They were not created, developed, marketed, or sold by government bureaucrats and lawmakers. One of the nation's top stent manufacturers, Boston Scientific, has weighed in on the Democrats' proposed massive taxes on medical device maker..." ... More >>

'Show No Mercy Presents Gnaw'

New York Will Pay $10,000 for Your Eggs; It's for Science

Well, Christine Quinn did say we were going after biotech: New York is going to pay women for their eggs, not to create an army of Mike Bloombergs but to be used in stem cell research. The Empire State Stem Cell Board is empowered to pay women up to $10,000 for ova, which puts us a leg up on every ... More >>

The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

"Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again

The AIDS-Babies-as-Guinea-Pigs Story Is Finally Over. Right?

Daily Flog: Obama revs up his fiat, plans to run over Bush policies on stem cells, oil

Peggy Bates: 'Barachois'

The Mogwai Drummer Scare: Martin Bulloch Home Safe in Scotland

Tabloid Exclusives on David Paterson and Dick Cheney

Freaky Friday on a Tuesday? Black Widow Grandmothers, Missing Legs and More

What's With the Emo Riots South of the Border?

A Hushed Elegy

'Nina in Position' is a jumble on paper but lucid in person

From the Front: Yaeger is a Sucker for Tracy Turnblad

'Reno 911!: Miami'

'Brothers of the Head'

A Hypochondriac's Dream

Coming soon—a home cancer-screening device

'Emmanuel's Gift'

Tits for Tat?

Bush's FDA moves forward on approving silicone breast implants but still stalls on emergency contraception

The Wrath About Khan

Plame's not the first spy outed by the Bush team. Remember the case of the Pakistani computer tech?

We Can Build You

A field guide to genetic engineering and bodily enhancement

Bush Was Born a Ramblin' Man

President gets perkier, but still careens toward incoherent

Show World

A Cancer Grows in Brooklyn

High Prostate Cancer Rates in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights

The Stem Cell Clashes

George W. Bush Can’t Stop Science

Nation

RU Pissed Off Yet?

After 10 Long Years, American Women May Finally Get the Abortion Pill—With Restrictions that Could Obliterate All It Has to Offer

Playing Through

Achieving Par and Other Goals at the Eastern Amputee Golf Association Tournament

Loving the Enema

Bionic Women

High-tech Equipment Spurs a Revolution for Disabled Athletes

Click and Learn

A new model for AIDS treatment activism