"Thousands [of women in India] are being given hysterectomies and caesareans that they do not need by doctors and hospitals that can make substantial sums of money out of the operations," Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley reports in her "Global Health Blog." The operations "leave women in pain, infirm, unable to work to earn a living and in horrendous debt," she writes, highlighting several cases documented by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Oxfam and its Indian partners (2/7). "Reports from a handful of Indian states, including Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, suggest that an extraordinarily high number of women are having their uteruses removed, including many below the age of 40," BBC News reports.