Hits & Misses – 2009/01/15
Six studies agree: Vitamins don't prevent cancer.
Man wants his kidney back from ex-wife.
Brown sugar, white sugar, honey – it's pretty much all the same, despite the name.
One in eight families don't want to be told the prognosis for a seriously ill patient.
The vitamin studies are shocking. Think how much money people have spent on antioxidents and other vitamins, thinking they are preventing cancer.
Interesting legal issue raised by the kidney. The husband should have made the gift conditional on continuing good relations. Or at a minimum, he should have gotten agreement on how he was to be compensated in case of a divorce.
I suppose it’s one more thing to put in a pre-nupt.
If you cannot buy a kidney, then you can’t have a contractual exchange for one. A contract requires consideration. So maybe the husband can claim he never relinguished his ownership rights.
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