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Adele to perform at Grammys after surgery

By theGrio

12:25 PM on 01/31/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - Adele is nominated for six Grammys, and she'll be there to collect anything she wins: The 23-year-old singer is set to perform at the awards show...
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Johnny Knox taken from field with back injury

By theGrio

11:50 AM on 12/19/2011

Johnny Knox will have surgery to stabilize a vetebra in his lower to mid back...
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Woman denies causing penis injection death

By theGrio

10:10 AM on 12/14/2011

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - Authorities say a man who died after having his penis injected with silicone was trying to get it enlarged...
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Fake butt doctor named Cheek allegedly operating in North Carolina

By Kunbi Tinuoye

12:55 PM on 12/09/2011

theGRIO REPORT - The so-called cosmetologist operating out of a North Carolina hotel was arrested after injecting an erotic dancer with deadly injections...
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Inmate appeals dismissal of sex change lawsuit

By theGrio

1:37 PM on 12/05/2011

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - A transgender Virginia inmate has appealed the dismissal of her lawsuit asking the state to pay for her to have a sex change operation, saying a jury should decide if hormones and other therapies she receives are adequate...
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Poor, black and uninsured transgender people seek illegal back-room procedures

By Kunbi Tinuoye

8:07 AM on 12/01/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Not all transgender people, though, can afford surgery or other body modifications, especially if they are poor, black and uninsured...
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Woman: Fix-A-Flat butt injection 'doc' ruined my face

By theGrio

3:34 PM on 11/29/2011

The misshapen chin, lumpy cheeks and ballooning upper lip are still visible on Rajee Narinesingh's face more than two years after, she says, she received a backroom cosmetic procedure...
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Do bogus butt enhancement doctors put hotels at risk?

By Kunbi Tinuoye

4:49 PM on 11/23/2011

theGRIO REPORT - They tend to use hotels because they are unable to perform these procedures in hospitals and for obvious reasons do not want to take clients to own their homes, Lt. John Walker says...
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Young women fall victim to deadly cosmetic procedures

By Dr. Terrance McGill

10:00 AM on 11/21/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Illegal cosmetic procedures such as the ones performed by transgendered Oneal Ron Morris involving injecting 'fix-a-flat,' cement and super glue is not uncommon...
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Fake doctor busted for bad butt injections

By theGrio

2:25 PM on 11/18/2011

MIAMI - Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested Friday after an investigation by Miami Gardens Police and the Florida Department of Health...
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Adele has vocal cord surgery in Boston

By theGrio

9:29 AM on 11/08/2011

BOSTON (AP) - A spokesman for Massachusetts General Hospital says the British singer underwent vocal cord microsurgery to stop recurrent bleeding from a benign polyp...
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Doctor claims he can make brown eyes blue permanently

By Clutch Magazine

12:10 PM on 11/04/2011

CLUTCH - A doctor in California is claiming that he developed a new laser technology that can permanently change eye color from brown to blue...
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Adele to have throat surgery, cancels 2011 plans

By theGrio

2:22 PM on 10/28/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia Records announced Friday that the 'Rolling in the Deep' singer will have surgery "to alleviate the current issues with her throat." A full recovery is expected...
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Pancreatic cancer touches black community too

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

12:46 PM on 10/06/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Steve Jobs' death has instantaneously raised the public's awareness of pancreatic cancer...
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R. Kelly cheered by families at back-to-school parade

By theGrio

1:38 PM on 08/17/2011

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES - As his sexually charged tunes blared from a sound system, he smiled and waved back...
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R. Kelly out of hospital after surgery

By theGrio

4:00 PM on 07/21/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Spokesman Allan Mayer said Thursday that the 44-year-old left Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and is recuperating at his home in the city...
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R. Kelly has emergency surgery on tonsil

By theGrio

12:57 PM on 07/20/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Kelly publicist Allan Mayer said Wednesday that doctors drained an abscess on one of Kelly's tonsils on Tuesday and that the singer will be "laid up indefinitely...
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Most common male cancer kills black men more

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

12:40 PM on 05/28/2011

theGRIO REPORT - One in five African-American men is diagnosed with prostate cancer, one in 20 die from it...
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Aretha Franklin: I didn't have gastric bypass

By theGrio

4:58 PM on 03/11/2011

That's the story the Queen of Soul's sticking to as she once again shoots down rumors about her health, this time the theory that she underwent gastric bypass surgery to drop weight...
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Aretha says she's lost 85 lbs, was 'entirely too fat'

By theGrio

1:28 PM on 03/02/2011

DETROIT (AP) - The 68-year-old Franklin underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment in December and didn't go into detail about it during the interview with Wendy Williams...
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