| Demi Moore reveals why she's kicked her excercise addiction, and is out to wow audiences with her acting, not her curves
Demi Moore is famous for her buff bod. She's toned it to perfection for gruelling roles such as GI Jane, flaunted it in Striptease and famously posed nude while heavily pregnant. And, after years out of the limelight, she's come back aged 44 with a body of a 21-year-old, achieved by spending an estimated £226,500 on plastic surgery. But Demi's brutal quest for physical perfection is getting too much. Once she trained six times a week and did hundreds of stomach crunches every day. Now she admits that she can't keep up. "I did kill myself with exercise but I've not done that for quite a while," she admits. "I'd take on film roles that made it absolutely necessary to be buff but I took it a bit too far. Now I do brisk walking as it has less impact on the bones.
WHO OWNS YOUR BODY PARTS?
Alistair Cooke's body lay cold in the embalming room of an East Harlem funeral home, suspended in the brief limbo between death and cremation. A "cutter" soon arrived to make a collection. He sliced open Cooke's legs, sawed the bones from the hip, and took them away. The quintessentially British presenter of Masterpiece Theatre and Alistair Cooke's Americathe face of genteel, urbane Albion to millions of Americanswas being carved up for parts. -Reason
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Stem cells from fat transplanted into heart
MADRID - Doctors have implanted adult stem cells extracted from a man's fat tissue through liposuction into his heart, in an experimental treatment for angina and heart disease, a Spanish hospital said on Tuesday. The Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid said the 67-year-old man, the first patient to receive the treatment, was doing well but warned it could take up to six months to see whether the cells repaired the damaged vessels. "Cardiologists ... have implanted adult stem cells from fat in the heart of a patient for the first time in the world," the state hospital said in a statement. Stem cells are master cells in the body that can transform in any type of cell or tissue. Scientists believe they could one day be used to treat a range of diseases.
Bill gives patients final say on recycled devices
The use of recycled medical devices has prompted legislation designed to alert patients to the possibility of infection from the equipment. A bill introduced by Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen, D-Union, last week requires health care professionals to inform a patient if they intend to use recycled equipment in a procedure. .
Transgender Thief Sentenced for Trying to Fake His Death
BALTIMORE (AP) - A transgender thief who was released from prison in 2005 to die of AIDS at home has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for trying to use a forged death certificate to avoid prosecution on identity theft charges. Dee Deirdre Farmer, a convicted thief who also goes by the names Douglas C. Farmer and Larry G. Prescott, pleaded guilty in December to obstruction of justice and misuse of a death certificate. Farmer was born male and underwent a sex-change operation to become female. According to court documents, she legally changed her birth certificate to reflect that she was a woman named Dee Deirdre Farmer. Farmer was sentenced in 1986 to 20 years in federal prison for credit-card fraud and 30 years in state prison for theft. While awaiting sentencing, she was caught participating in a telephone jewelry theft scheme from jail.
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