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As many as 130 million women worldwide had undergone circumcision as of 2001, according to the U.S. State Department. The procedure is often done using knives, razors, or sharp stones that, in many cases, have not been sterilized.
Female circumcision is most common in 28 African countries, including Ethiopia, Egypt, and Somalia, experts told the AP.
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British Twins Have Different Skin Color
No need to call Sherlock Holmes. The case of British twin boys who have different skin color is not a mystery, but a rare genetic occurrence, experts say.
The boys were born white but the skin of one of the boys got darker and the other's became lighter as they got older, mother Kerry Richardson told Britain's Sky News.
The mother is of mixed race -- Nigerian and English heritage -- while the twins' father is white.
This kind of situation is rare because the genes responsible for skin color normally mix together, said an Oxford University genetics expert. In the case of these twins, it seems that the genes for skin color didn't combine and the boys may have inherited different genetic codes from their mother, the Associated Press reported.
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Experts Call for Increased Stenting After Heart Attack
Too many Americans are dying because doctors are slow to clear coronary arteries and install stents when heart attack patients arrive at hospitals, experts told cardiologists meeting in Washington, D.C.
They said that while it's true that many thousands of patients may die each year from overuse of stents, many more die because doctors are too slow to clear arteries and use stents, The New York Times reported Friday.
Stents are mesh cylinders that keep arteries open and after they've been cleared of plaque.
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