Health 10 August 2020 By Pat Hagan Glue ear can be a painful conditionTara Moore/Getty Images A patch of tissue from a pig’s guts could treat severe cases of glue ear, a condition that develops when the middle part of the ear fills with a sticky, gluey fluid, often as the result of infection. It…
She was saved by silicon.A woman survived a close-range gunshot thanks to her silicone breast implants, doctors have discovered.Researchers detailed how a silicone breast implant deflected the bullet from nipping the 30-year-old woman’s vital organs in a new study published in the SAGE medical journal.“The implant caused the change in the trajectory of the bullet,” surgeon Giancarlo…
New York Daily News | Apr 21, 2020 | 8:12 PM The unidentified 30-year-old woman survived with just a few broken ribs – on the opposite side of her chest from where the bullet went in. Doctors found that the silicone in her left implant deflected the bullet from her heart or lungs, thus saving…
The CDC is reporting 3,123 more cases of Cyclospora infections compared with a week ago in an outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce from a Taylor Farms growing operation in Central Mexico. The total number of patients for the outbreak now stands at 9,481with 398 hospitalizations. Two people in Michigan have died. The Centers for Disease
Published: August 12, 2026, 7:23 pm Whole Foods Market is recalling dozens of products that contain jalapeños because they are part of a larger recall connected to a Salmonella outbreak. The jalapeños were sourced from Coast Citrus Distributors and were recalled because of Salmonella contamination. There are 345 confirmed patients across 27 states in the
Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and