A disturbing account of abuse of a senior citizen has occurred in a suburb in northeastern Toronto. Police in Toronto responded to a call from paramedics on Wednesday morning, stating that there was a senior citizen possibly being abused.  When police responded to the home they discovered an elderly woman, sixty-eight years old, unconscious and [...]

A small child in a suburb of Atlanta, ended up spending more than a few hours inside a bank vault when she became trapped after staff closed the time controlled door on Friday. The nightmare for the child and her mother lasted until an emergency call was made to a local locksmith who was called [...]

A landlord in Winnipeg who was plagued with bedbugs in his rental suites has figured out his own answer for annihilating the vermin, he bakes them until dead. Leon Wieler set up an aging equipment trailer, and put in fans and heaters, and came up with the process of heating the inside area up to [...]

The Canadian Medical Association head says that it’s necessary for cities to improve the job they do of providing long term lodging if they want to reduce the death rates of homeless people suffering from tuberculosis. A study printed in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases discovered that 20% of homeless people diagnosed with tuberculosis die [...]

Worksites that utilize forklifts and powered mobile equipment in Alberta, will be under the magnifying glass of provincial safety inspectors. Alberta’s minister of immigration and employment, Thomas Lukaszuk , said the government is escalating Occupational Health and Safety inspections beginning on Tuesday. He said that he has instructed his safety officers to scrutinize worksites all [...]

A collection of scientists are advising everybody to not place too many expectations upon the short-range effect of genomic research. They beseech governments with funders and to reconsider their main concerns in order to ensure the appeal of genetic potentialities doesn’t influence research away from less sensational studies that might add to enhanced health as [...]

Langford, B.C. authorities had quite a mystery in their backyard when the Goldstream River unexpectedly changed to a neon green colour. Goldstream Provincial Park visitors were horrified and they watched in disbelief as a suspected luminous green dye flowed all the way through the river for approximately an hour. Goldstream Provincial Park is situated to [...]

An investigation conducted by the CBC, determined that the food trays in some shopping mall food courts in the Vancouver area, have as many detrimental micro organisms as can be normally found on toilet seats. Sample swabs were taken from food trays in 3 local malls, Burnaby’s Metrotown, West Vancouver’s Park Royal, and Vancouver’s Pacific [...]

Health Canada is notifying Canadians that a producer of non-prescription drugs, Pharmetics Inc., has of their own accord initiated a recall, as a proactive safety precaution, of certain batches of 6 health merchandise presently on Canadian market shelves.  The recalled goods are the generic store brand names of the retailer’s products. Pharmetics Inc.’s recall arrives [...]

In San Antonio, Texas, at Brooke Army Medical Center, burn victims may be treated one day by spraying stem cells on burned flesh with a spray gun. Researchers say that a spray gun has been developed that sprays stem cells on injured skin and is effectively treating burn victims. Dr. Jorg Gerlach of the Pittsburgh [...]