While vacationing in Fiji, 62-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards fell out of a palm tree and suffered a mild concussion.

... media reports in Australia and New Zealand said Richards hurt his head after falling out of a palm tree at an exclusive Fiji resort and remained hospitalized in Auckland. (Washington Post)

April 30, 2006

Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who underwent the world's first face transplant after she was attacked by a dog, says she now has complete feeling in her face.

Isabelle Dinoire, 38, also told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche that the hardest part of her recovery appears to be getting to know herself again. When asked if she has accepted her new face, she responded: "It's too difficult to explain." (Washington Post)

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December 04, 2005

Physicians in France said they had performed the world's first partial face transplant, advancing into a risky medical frontier with an operation on a woman disfigured by a dog bite.

The 38-year-old woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, had a nose, lips and chin grafted onto her face from a brain-dead donor whose family gave consent. The operation, performed Sunday, included a surgeon famous for transplant breakthroughs, Jean-Michel Dubernard. (Washington Post)

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November 15, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Actress Brooke Burns was hospitalized after diving into her backyard pool and hitting her head, her agent said Monday.

Burns broke a bone in her neck and required "minor surgery," said Paradigm spokeswoman Jennifer Glassman. (Washington Post)

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October 12, 2005

It started simply enough, with a new office chair ...

An X-ray revealed a calcium deposit, a tiny mineral mass, technically called calcific tendinitis, within a tendon of my shoulder. As the new chair jammed my upper arm up against the deposit, the area became inflamed. The doctor first suggested anti-inflammatory medication, but by July 2004 the medication had diminishing impact. (Washington Post)

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October 05, 2005

Lindsay Lohan and two other people were taken to a hospital Tuesday after the actress' black Mercedes-Benz convertible collided with a van in West Hollywood, authorities said.

Witnesses said Lohan was trying to avoid paparazzi photographers when the crash occurred. (Washington Post)

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August 17, 2005

FRIENDS thought the worst after Madonna fell from her horse on to ground "as hard as concrete", it was revealed yesterday.

They were "afraid" as they raced to her aid as she lay motionless on her £9million country estate. (Mirror.co.uk)

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August 16, 2005

MADONNA, the American pop star turned quintessentially English lady of the manor, suffered serious injuries including a broken collar bone yesterday in a fall from a new horse on her 47th birthday. (Times Online)

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April 25, 2005

Phyllis Diller has undergone surgery for fractures in her neck sustained when she fell out of bed at her Brentwood mansion last week. (Newsday)

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March 09, 2005

Petra Nemcova discussed her injuries with Diane Sawyer, saying, "My pelvis was broken, so my legs didn't work, but I freed my arms. I tried to pull myself and I could do it a little bit." Nemcova, whose boyfriend Simon Atlee's remains were only found this week, was swept away by the tsunami while Nemcova survived by holding onto a tree for 7 1/2 hours.

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