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Smokers More Likely To Suffer Seizures
Smokers More Likely To Suffer Seizures Alcohol, Caffeine Don't Appear To Raise Risk POSTED: 9:21 am EST November 18, 2009 UPDATED: 9:24 am EST November 18, 2009 People who smoke are more likely to have seizures than those who don't, while caffeine and alcohol do not increase the chances, according to a new study. Res...
Nov 18, 2009, 4:51 pm - truesee

Ex-Inmate Seriously Injured Trying to Break Into Jail
Ex-inmate suffers serious injuries trying to get back into Brevard jail BY KAUSTUV BASU FLORIDA TODAY September 1, 2009 The concertina wire that surrounds the Brevard County Detention Center in Sharpes is designed to prevent inmates from escaping. But Monday night, someone tried to break into the jail compound by climbing the fences and suffered severe...
Sep 2, 2009, 11:08 pm - truesee

Burglar arrested after returning to scene with more tools
May 11, 9:02 PM EDT Okla. police arrest would-be burglar after he returns to the scene of the crime with more tools TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police said officers arrested a would-be burglar when he returned to the scene of the crime after failing the first time to get in. Police said officers were called about 8:30 p.m. Sunday to the pharmacy of a medical center where witnesses said someone had tried to break in -...
May 12, 2009, 5:57 am - truesee

Doctors remove 40-pound tumor from woman
German doctors: 40-pound tumor removed from woman By RACHEL NOLAN, Associated Press Writer Friday, April 24, 2009 (04-24) 09:52 PDT BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- A German doctor said Friday that surgeons have successfully removed a 40-pound (18 kilogram) malignant bone tumor from a Saudi Arabian woman. Dr. Heinz Zurbruegg, a surgeon at the private Capital Health clinic in Berlin, said the 35-year-old had only a few weeks to...
Apr 25, 2009, 1:06 pm - truesee

Fake dentist arrested after removing nine teeth in one sitting
Fake dentist arrested after he removes nine teeth in one sitting 23 Apr 2009 The Euroweekly News He admitted to having no qualifications when officers questioned him Guardia Civil from Nijar have arrested a 27-year-old man from Motril (Granada) accused of practising as a dentist without the proper qualifications. Police officers launched the investigation at the end of March after being alerted to a dentist who had set up practice in San Isi...
Apr 24, 2009, 10:39 am - truesee

Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung
Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Monday. The disco...
Apr 13, 2009, 8:46 am - truesee

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself While At Hospital
February 10th, 2009 @ 7:27pm LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) - A man who reached into his pocket to pay for lunch at a hospital cafeteria in Lafayette accidentally shot himself with the gun in his pocket. Police and officials at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center said it was an unfortunate accident. Officials said 59-year-old Steve Tapp of Thornton was treated at the hospital and released. No one else was hurt....
Feb 11, 2009, 6:24 am - truesee

Indian Man Jailed for Taking 50 cents 24 Years Ago
Wed Feb 4, 4:57 am ET PATNA, India (Reuters) An Indian court sentenced a 75-year-old doctor to jail for accepting half a dollar (35 pence) as bribe nearly a quarter of a century ago, officials said on Wednesday....
Feb 4, 2009, 8:03 am - truesee

Woman Who Had 8 Babies Wants $2 Million From Oprah, Free Diapers
Monday, February 02, 2009 Fox News The mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2 million from media interviews and commercial endorsements to help pay the costs of raising the children, the Times of London reported. Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert. It was learned last week that she already had six children before giving birth to eight more....
Feb 3, 2009, 4:36 am - truesee

Dad Told to Pay for Child's Birth or Wed Mom
B rian Bendetti 1/18/2009 7:18:51 PM FLINT, MI (AP) -- The state of Michigan is giving a father a choice: pay the medical cost of his daughter's birth or marry the girl's mother. Gary Johnson was billed $3,800 for the birth of his daughter JaeLyn, The Flint Journal reported in Sunday online editions. Johnson is not married to the child's mother, Rebecca Witt. The Michigan Legislature amended the state's paternit...
Jan 19, 2009, 7:03 am - truesee