Bloodless Medicine

Doctors, vets work together to save orangutan

5 Feb 2012

DENVER - It's not every day you get the chance to save an endangered species, even when your name happens to have the word doctor in front of it. Doctors with the University of Colorado, specialists in gynecology and oncology admit this was an unusual situation.

Devoted Denver zookeeper enlists team of doctors to save orangutan's life

5 Feb 2012

Sally, a Sumatran orangutan, emerged last month from her white room at the Denver Zoo into a maze of logs and rope. Were it not for a zoo veterinarian and a team of physicians from two Denver hospitals, however, Sally would have died last summer.

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law by Sadakat Kadri

22 Jan 2012

Sharia law, often seen as draconian, is shown to have a richly varied and fluid history in this thought‑provoking study Sadakat Kadri, a lawyer by training, is careful to issue disclaimers. "Lest it be necessary to say so – and it probably is," he writes in the prologue to Heaven on Earth , "it [his book] does not intend at any point to challenge the sacred stature of the Prophet Muhammad, the ...