The world's first double-leg transplant patient has had both limbs amputated after an unrelated illness forced him to stop taking anti-rejection drugs, the Spanish hospital that carried out the operation said Tuesday. "The patient who had two legs transplanted at the Hospital La Fe in 2011 had to undergo an operation to amputate the two extremities," said a statement issued by the hospital in Valencia, eastern Spain. The patient, who contracted an unrelated illness, had the two limbs amputated about a year and a half after the milestone transplant, it said.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups, upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a judge's order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. But in doing so at least one opponent of easy access to the contraception thinks the president is buckling to political pressure, rather than making the health of girls a priority.

CALGARY - A Calgary man is looking for some answers from Alberta Health officials after his terminally ill wife was discharged from a hospice. Ian McDougall's wife has been sick with cancer for two years and spent the last three months in the Sarcee Hospice. McDougall says although her doctor recommended she stay put, administrators ordered her discharged and she was placed in a nursing home. McDougall says he believes it looks like the case of a patient who's lived too long.

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. group that sets policy for organ transplants voted on Monday to give some children access to adult organs after the parents of two children successfully sued to add them to the adult list for lung transplants. The cases, both in Pennsylvania, have touched off a debate in the United States over how donor organs - a scarce, life-saving resource - should be allocated among the 1,659 people, including 30 children, on the waiting list for a lung transplant.