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BOSTON - As more information comes to light about the alleged nationwide scheme that involved the sale of stolen body parts from the Harvard Medical School morgue, many are wondering: who bought the ...

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A woman in India has been found with her own twin growing inside her abdomen, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind. Doctors who operated on the 17-year-old said they found bones, teeth ...