CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago man accidentally shot a 3.25in (8.25cm) nail into his skull, but was unaware that it had entered his brain until the next day, when he began feeling nauseous. Dante Autullo, 34, was in his workshop last Tuesday when a nail gun recoiled near his head. Surgeons told Autullo that it [...]
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DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND – A scientist who helped his aged mother to die was sentenced on Thursday to five months’ home detention by a court in New Zealand. Sean Davison, a South Africa-based forensic specialist, admitted to giving his 85-year-old mother a drink laced with morphine in 2006. Judges in the city of Dunedin said [...]
SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANNIA – Overweight adults eat less often but take in more calories and are less active during the day than normal weight adults, according to a U.S study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. “Most research has shown that people who eat more frequently weigh less. But no one knows why,” [...]
SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM – A British shopper has said his family to their horror found a dead bird in a prepared salad he bought at a supermarket and served for dinner. Paul Streeter from Weare in the seaside county of Somerset, said his girlfriend was sick after the carcass was discovered in a baby-leaf-and-rocket salad [...]
TORONTO – A ring of four men suspected of a gold bullion fraud in the Greater Toronto area was arrested last week by the Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes Unit. The scheme allegedly centered on fraudulent transfers of funds from one business account to another business account. The funds were then used to finance money [...]
HAIFA, ISRAEL – A new international study has found that exposure to white LED bulbs is significantly more harmful to public health than exposure to the orange-yellow light emitted by high pressure sodium bulbs. The findings by a team of researchers from Israel, Italy and the United States, in a study titled “Limiting the impact [...]
A 47-year-old Toronto acupuncturist has been accused of sexually assaulting four different women whom he treated at his clinic on 44 Royal York Road between 2008 and February this year.
VANCOUVER – Megan McNeil, 20, a singer who captured the hearts of North Americans with her song about what it’s like to be a kid battling childhood cancer, has died. She had battled Adrenalcortical Carcinoma since she was 16. Megan wrote The Will to Survive to lift the spirits of other kids in the chemo [...]
The New York Blood Center (NYBC) which serves more than 20 million people in New York City and New Jersey areas has issued an urgent call to donors of blood and platelets, due to the loss of more than 1,000 donations owing to cancellations caused by hazardous weather conditions
LAKE SUCCESS, NY – A New York State Supreme Court Queens County jury returned a $7,000,000.00 verdict against Patrick Monteleone M.D. and Newell Robinson, M.D. where they failed to diagnose and treat cardiac tamponade (bleeding into the chest) in their patient who underwent cardiac bypass surgery on November 17, 2004. “As a result of their [...]
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